Word: exodus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Moses do it? According to Exodus 12:37, he led out of Egypt about 600,000 men, plus women and children-a total of more than 2,000,000 Jews...
...weeks the refugee flow had been increasing. Suddenly, over the Easter weekend, it became a torrent. In four days, more than 4,200 East Germans, carrying their meager belongings in sacks and briefcases, showed up in West Berlin and at West German border points. It was the biggest exodus since the 1953 revolt in East Germany. All last week hundreds more arrived daily as harried West Berlin officials hastily arranged special flights to move them out of the city...
Married. Otto Preminger, 53, bagel-bald Hollywood producerdirector; and Brunette Patricia Hope Bryce, 29, one of the highest-paid U.S. fashion models; he for the third time, she for the second; in Haifa, Israel, where he is filming Leon Uris' Exodus...
...Exodus. Others besides Hedda were worried. The spectacle of millionaire movie actors lined up with extras against the men who once ran the town suggested to Hollywood oldtimers the end of an era. In fact, that era had ended long ago. "I'm not going to start another picture," said M-G-M Producer Joe Pasternak, "until the actors decide to give the business back to the bosses." But there are virtually no bosses around to take it back...
...followed the sun westward generations ago to build their dream world on the Hollywood lots are dead, dying or dispersed. Harassed by taxes, producers and actors have split Hollywood into countless independent corporations that make more and more of their movies abroad. The strike has only hastened the exodus of hangers-on, the hard-up hopefuls who could never make it unless the whole town was working; even if the strike is settled, many of them will never be back in movies...