Word: exodus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...these questions are probably aca- demic. Like it or not, Harvard professors have been serving as official consultants to the federal government for a long time. When the chance comes, some will leave swiftly (if often only temporarily) for a good job in Washington. The exodus of '61, from Bundy to Schlesinger, was not the first time Harvard professors served in important government positions; nor will it be the last. Under Johnson, the Cambridge to Washington shuttle has continued with men like Otto Eckstein going to the Council of Economic Advisers, Robert Bowie to the State Department, and James Vorenberg...
...must cope with its problems." So far, at least, there was little evidence that Kerr's dismissal would have much, if any, immediate effect on the quality of Cal's teaching. None of the protesting professors had offered to resign. So long as there was no mass exodus, it seemed unlikely that many potential faculty recruits would be dissuaded from heading west to join the nation's most prestigious state university...
...first exodus took place in 1963, when Dwain Evans, a Churches of Christ preacher, led a trek of 85 families, most of them from Texas, to West Islip, Long Island. So successful was this experiment-the West Islip congregation now has its own $300,000 church and has won 100 converts-that other ministers set up similar communities in Somerville, N.J., and Stamford, Conn. This year, the Churches of Christ plan to organize new congregations in Rochester, N.Y., Burlington, Mass., and Toronto, Canada. By 1968, they hope to ship a readymade congregation to Sao Paulo in Brazil...
After the decision was made, James Pounders of Tuscaloosa, Ala., the exodus organizer, flew to Stamford with 56 members of his new congregation for job interviews. According to one employment agency, some firms seemed worried that the Churches of Christ members "would try to convert everybody in the shop." Nonetheless, by the time the move took place last August, three-fourths of the missionaries had jobs waiting for them...
...idea would have been more impressive, though, had it been backed by the $160,000. The request was not unusually large; the gains from seeing what a group like Exodus can do when it is adequately financed would have been great. It was the wrong time for the Office of Education to refuse to make an exception...