Word: exodus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...congregation of 68 families, most of them from Texas, and their minister, will begin a mass move to the unassuming town of Bay Shore, L.I., a New York City suburb chosen for what the migrants conceive to be a novel blend of wholesomeness and godlessness. The purpose of "Exodus-Bay Shore" is to give that part of Long Island its first "pure-gospel" church, and the move is being sponsored by one of the nation's few big made-in-U.S.A. religious groups-the evangelical, expansive (2,250,000 members) Churches of Christ,* which dot Texas, Tennessee...
...exodus was planned as carefully as a corporation hunts out a new plant site. Evangelist Dwain Evans, 29, preacher of the proposed church, and a committee of elders scouted six other communities before choosing Bay Shore, which has the advantage of being near Long Island's aircraft and electronics plants. Recently, a number of corporations sent representatives to Dallas to interview members of the new congregation about jobs; a number of Long Island school boards similarly solicited teachers. But faith more than fortune lies behind the exodus. "It is the will of God," says Evans, "that...
Explosive Exodus. If their polemics sounded curiously off-key in the never-had-it-so-good society, the Young Angries at least helped ventilate British complacency and restore some of the dynamics that had gone out of the welfare state. A later wave of novelists and starkly realistic films bitterly mocked the opportunism and intellectual dishonesty of society as they saw it. Last year, for the first time since Pope and Swift peppered the 18th century Establishment with choleric wit, no-holds-barred political satire found a big, avid audience in theaters, nightclubs and newspaper columns. Even on BBC television...
...have no bathrooms, and at least 500,000 are officially designated as slums. Britain in the next 20 years will have to build a minimum of 300,000 houses a year. The shortage is compounded by a steady influx of office buildings into downtown areas and an exodus of city dwellers to the suburbs, where land grows ever more scarce and costly. Outside London, the government may even be compelled to build new towns in the Green Belts, as Britons call the jealously preserved rural areas around their cities...
After M.I.T., Bustani settled in Palestine, where he set up a contracting firm that specialized in installing bathrooms. His first big expansion came during World War II, when CAT became a major builder of British military installations in the Middle East. Even its exodus from Palestine after the establishment of Israel did not slow CAT down. By insisting on high standards and by patiently training local labor, Bustani proved that Arabs could do as good a construction job as anyone else. During the great postwar rush to expand Mideastern oil output, CAT began taking contracts away from Western companies, eventually...