Word: exodus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...operating almost at full capacity; half of the company's white technicians have stayed on to help run it. Belgium has agreed to resume its $70 million aid program, which it suspended after the Belgian embassy was stormed. About half of the 1,200 Belgian teachers, whose exodus from the Congo crippled the country's schools and three universities, are now planning to come back to areas where Mobutu can assure their safety...
...Allan Y. Graubard, a tutor in Social Studies, offers a 22-page de-bunking of Marcuse's One Dimensional Man; Franz Bloom '68 submits a review of Moore's Social Origins of Totalitarianism and Democracy, and Michael Walzer, Associate Professor of Government, writes on the Puritan interpretation of the Exodus. Several excellent essays on religious radicalism, three brief book reviews, and a few pages of generally laborious poetry complete the issue...
...Youth Alliance sign on Blue Hills Avenue. Store-fronts for adult organizations -- CORE, Operation Exodus, and the Black Muslims--dominate the block. Jo Jo Ferguson, Alliance's 21-year-old executive director, met me at the door. The barrenness of the outer meeting room contrasted sharply with the rich carpet and shiny desks in the main office. Ferguson, dressed in chinos and a wine-colored sport shirt, insisted on being called "mister." Like most of Alliance's 200 members, he is a high school dropout. Since Ferguson had to go to a meeting, he sent me to talk...
Alliance wants to be independent of adult Negro organizations too. The group feels that Negro adults are already doing their share of the work, and youth must do its portion. "Taking funds from groups like Operation Exodus would just make them less effective," Bell said...
Some observers of Boston politics had wondered if the great exodus to the suburbs had not left Boston entirely in the hands of the Populists, the traditionalists, and those who still maintain a defensive immigrant mentality. The election of Kevin White, a somewhat sophisticated and cosmopolitan politician, as Mayor and the election of John L.Saltonstall '38, a true Boston Brahmin, and of Thomas Atkins, a Negro, to the Boston City Council indicates otherwise. And other observers had wondered if Mrs. Hicks' old-fashioned "house party and hand-shake" campaign style, and her emotional appeals to parochialism and selfishness would...