Word: exodus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there for a year, then went to Washington as a Budget Bureau analyst. After wartime service as a Marine intelligence officer, he returned to the Budget Bureau, moved on to become a White House assistant and one of Truman's top speechwriters. Departing from Washington in the Democratic exodus of early 1953, Bell went back to Harvard. In 1954-57, between stints of teaching economics, he served in Pakistan as head of a team that Harvard, with Ford Foundation money, sent out to advise the Pakistanis on how to manage their economy...
Beauty in Bavaria. One reason for the exodus, explains a German realty salesman, is that "Hitler and the war isolated us from the world." Says he: "Living abroad gives us a liberating feeling of belonging again." In fact, Germans abroad fraternize little with foreigners, prefer as a rule to segregate themselves in Teuton-villes that, except for sea air and plentiful help, could be summer suburbs of Stuttgart. Many buy land abroad in order to dispose of "black capital," as they call unreported income. Others frankly seek out areas that German real estate ads describe as "far from any crisis...
Some Hawaiians fear that the exodus of Big Five capital bodes ill for Hawaii's continued growth. Hawaii's economy, which has recently lost some of its zip, rests precariously on four principal sources of income-sugar, pineapples, tourism, and military spending. Any decrease in agricultural income without offsetting increases in tourism and military spending, would be a serious blow and critics of the Big Five argue that by taking their know-how abroad, the companies may actually help foreign producers to cut into Hawaiian pineapple and sugar sales. In rebuttal, defenders of the Big Five insist that...
...settling for suburban elegance. Mali is following the lead of such other African nations as Guinea, Nigeria and the Ivory Coast, which last year bought a 36-room mansion for its U.N. ambassador on Long Island. One unvoiced reason for the exodus is the difficulty that Africans have encountered in obtaining adequate quarters in New York City. And. like those of many other small nations, Mali's foreign service is largely concentrated in the U.N. -it has only eight other ambassadors throughout the world outside Africa...
Light Bulbs & Cigarettes. By contrast with the numbing depression that gripped their city when the Wall went up, Berliners were good and mad last week; there was no talk of an exodus. Said one: "We've pretty well separated the men from the boys by now." Pan American, British European Airways and Air France, the airlines serving West Berlin, were flying dozens of flights daily, with big loads coming as well as going...