Word: exodus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kennedy and Nixon discussed the other evening the continuing exodus of an odd and unused commodity from our shores. Although neither candidate grasped the central point, expressing themselves in generalities about stabilizing our currency, and particularly reducing the national debt, their comments made clear the weakness of gold itself as the bulwark of our economy...
Born. To Hollywood Producer-Director Otto Preminger, 53, recently back from shooting a film version of Leon Uris' best-selling novel Exodus in Israel and Cyprus; and his third wife Patricia, 29, his onetime movie costume coordinator, whom he married last March: twins; in Manhattan. Names: Victoria and Mark...
...unaccustomed passengers. For a fortnight, trainload after trainload of Soviet technicians and their families have been leaving for home with all their belongings -but without any farewell fanfare in the press or happy fraternal rallies at the station. Yugoslav Correspondent Branko Bogunovic, who sent out the story of the exodus, wrote: "The official explanation is that the Soviet experts are leaving after the expiration of their contracts. But other versions are circulating in Peking which throw a different light on the matter...
...Exodus. By week's end an estimated 60,000 of the 80,000 Belgians had fled before the rampaging soldiery. In Luluabourg only 54 of 3,600 Belgians were left, and mutineers still roamed the streets looting European shops and homes. From outlying districts there came more reports of rape and mayhem. In the Equator province a Roman Catholic priest was tied to a stake, forced to watch as ten nuns were repeatedly raped. Belgium's Foreign Affairs Minister Pierre Wigny spoke for his nation last week when he cried in Parliament: "Do we really have to prove...
...Corps colonel at 28, the planning director of Ford Motor Co. at 32, the operating boss of Hughes Air craft at 35. At 47, he is a hard-working executive worth $37 million in 443,024 shares of Litton stock. It all started when he quit Hughes in the exodus of brains (TIME, Oct. 5, 1953), started his own company, which is one of the fastest-grow ing electronics firms (1959 sales: $125 million), claims to be the biggest U.S. manufacturer of desk calculating machines...