Word: exodus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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UNIVERSITY: Otto Preminger, having disfigured G. B. Shaw (you must remember his "Saint Joan" of several years back), how has a crack at history itself: and the result is a seldom-recognizable version of the Israeli struggle for independence from British stewardship and Arab hatred, called EXODUS -- after a novel of that name to which it also bears but slight resemblance. The cast is as large as the film is long; stars include Paul Newman, Eve Marie Saint, Ralph Richardson, Peter Lawford, Lee J. Cobb and (inevitably) Sal Mineo. Afternoons and evenings...
Hollywood's aging (54), Austrian-born enfant terrible in the past has bulldozed sparkling performances even out of Frank Sinatra and Gene Tierney, turned out a succession of hits, from wittily naughty The Moon Is Blue to Exodus. For three weeks now he has been turning all Washington into a stage and making all its politicians merely players-and only walk-ons at that...
...hurricane into sub mission. One thing the weathermen could claim credit for now: their accurate, timely alarm. Carla did enormous property damage, perhaps a billion dollars' worth, but took few lives. The well-warned people of coastal Louisiana and Texas had fled to safety in the greatest mass exodus in U.S. history. Only a comparative few were killed. There was no mass tragedy as when Hurricane Audrey flooded Cameron, La., in 1957 and killed 590 people...
...Communists' East German wall was virtually complete. Behind it, Red Boss Walter Ulbricht could whip his sullen millions into line without fear of an other mass exodus. But barricading Berlin was just the first surprise Old Spitzbart (pointed beard) had in mind for the West. Last week, pointedly, arrogantly, he began to reach for more, and as a result, on the tense and anxious Berlin frontier more and more armed men faced each other with weapons at the ready...
Just in Time. For Walter Ulbricht, East Germany's goat-bearded, Communist boss, the wall was utterly necessary to preserve the very life of his dismal satrapy. For seldom had history witnessed so great an exodus as had been flowing Westward in great clotted spurts. "You are sharing in the Great Socialist Experiment," Ulbricht cried to his people in 1949, as he cut their food ration and trimmed away their liberties. Far from sharing Ulbricht's enthusiasm, almost 3,500,000 East Germans-no less than 20% of the post-World War II population-fled to the West...