Word: exodus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Exodus? President Johnson requested a congressional appropriation of $50 million in emergency funds. But most Alaskans were convinced that the Congress will have to pass special legislation to make as much as $500 million available, preferably in outright grants rather than long-term loans. Governor Egan and other state officials hoped at the same time to kick off a $50 million reconstruction bond issue. But in any event, Alaskans agreed that they had better get the money soon or suffer a depression and a mass exodus of the populace. Said Anchorage Times Publisher Robert Atwood: "Uncle...
...both sides, Indian and Pakistani exiles are pawns in a vast, vengeful diaspora unequaled since the migrations that followed the 1947 partitioning of the subcontinent between Hindu India and Moslem Pakistan. The two-way exodus was restarted this year by a savage, three-month wave of Hindu-Moslem rioting, mostly in eastern India and East Pakistan; the conflict has already taken untold hundreds of lives in two countries. India claims that some 200,000 Hindus have been forced to flee Pakistan. Pakistan claims that some 200,000 Moslems have been forced to flee India. For all their indignation, neither side...
Founded by two Zionist groups, the tiny line - named ZIM from a contraction of two Hebrew words meaning merchant marine-ran the British blockade with such doughty ships as the Exodus, the inspiration of the novel by Leon Uris. Today ZIM sails on as a firm worth an estimated $140 million; its six passenger ships and 34 freighters carry 41% of all Israel's imports and 26% of its exports. This year ZIM plans to add another 19 cargo ships, which will make it one of the world's dozen largest lines, comparing respectably with Cunard (whose gross...
...such eminent scientists as the University of Bristol's Maurice Pryce, chief of the theoretical physics division at the government atomic energy center at Harwell, and Anthony Pople, head of the basic physics research at the Teddington National Laboratory, also said they were leaving for the U.S., the exodus touched off a political uproar...
...reason for the recent exodus of European and British scientists to the U.S., he explained, is that advancement on American faculties is relatively more flexible and rapid than "the long, laborious process" by which scholars gain professional stature in Europe...