Word: exodus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...inspiration for the exodus comes from the Rev. Donald Abernathy of the Apostolic Gospel Church of Bell Gardens, a Los Angeles suburb. Last spring he had a series of visions that convinced him that the Los Angeles area would soon be torn apart by an earthquake. In his graphic revelations, Abernathy said, "buildings crumbled, freeways buckled, water gushed up from cracks in the ground and volcanoes erupted in the nearby mountains. Then the destruction moved north toward San Francisco." In two subsequent visions, Abernathy saw an airplane ticket stamped with the word "Atlanta." Taking this as divine direction...
...free radio stations that had sustained the Czechoslovaks in the first days of invasion and uncertainty faded out, and state censorship was reimposed. Tourists and foreign correspondents were turned back at the borders. A great exodus began, as thousands of the country's ablest professors, artists, writers and journalists fled to freedom in the West. Gradually, inexorably, the little country that for eight months gave promise of showing Communism the way into the modern world-and for eight days dared defy its oppressors-slipped back into the dark age of a Stalinist-style police state...
When Motorola's executive vice president, C. Lester Hogan, quit last month to become president of rival Fairchild Camera & Instrument, he took seven colleagues along with him. Besides suffering a prompt drop in the price of its stock, Motorola began worrying that the mass exodus would mean a loss of trade secrets. Last week it acted. Filing suit in U.S. District Court in Phoenix, Motorola Inc. asked damages against Hogan, his associates and Fairchild, also sought to enjoin Fairchild from hiring away any more...
...have risen only 4% since 1966, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. New York, however, is a very special case. There the apartment shortage and the rent squeeze have become so bad that many office workers, professionals and young executives are reluctantly moving out to the suburbs, an exodus that bodes ill for the city's struggle to retain its middle-class population. President William J. Molloy of Molloy Bros. Moving & Storage, the largest affiliate of Allied Van Lines in the New York area, reports a 25% increase this summer in families moving out of Manhattan. "Business...
...group of Boston-area students--ranging ideologically from moderate McCarthyites to Resistance people--is coordinating a mass exodus to Chicago from an office in Harvard's Memorial Hall...