Word: exodus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...project, called the Roxbury Education Program, will put 90 Harvard-Radcliffe volunteers into classrooms as tutors. Hayden Duggan '68, co-chairman of the program, said yesterday that he hoped to recruit 15 to 20 parents and college students from Operation Exodus, a local civil rights organization, to teach classes along with the Harvard and Radcliffe volunteers...
Operation Exodus' participation in the PBH project must be approved by the Roxbury School Board. Operation Exodus runs an after-school tutorial program similar to PBH's, and buses Negro students to neighboring schools in an effort to alleviate racial imbalance in Roxbury schools...
After months of negotiations, the State Department thought that it had succeeded several weeks ago in arranging the exodus. The U.S. was to pay Cubana Airlines some $250,000 to fly the Americans and their 1,700 dependents to Mexico City, where the refugees could be transferred to U.S.-bound planes. The State Department even announced that one planeload was on its way. Not so, replied the Cuban government. The plane, it announced, had turned back because of "engine trouble...
Author William J. Lederer was invited to the platform by Alton B. Fry, a visiting member of the Center for International Studies, to answer a question about a mass exodus of North Vietnamese to the South. This movement, Lederer said, is often used to support the Administration policy. But actually some priests told North Vietnamese Catholics that Jesus and Mary now lived in South Vietnam, and the people believed...
...exodus of name singers, the Italian audiences can in part blame themselves. "They hiss or whistle too easily," says Soprano Mirella Freni. "I like a certain battle climate, but in Italy every evening is a graduation exam...