Word: exodus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...panicked exodus of Asians trying to beat the deadline dealt the Kenyan economy a severe blow. Demand has dropped sharply along with heavy capital losses--an average of 5000 pounds follows every Asian family that leaves Kenya...
Riots in the wake of Martin Luther King's murder started a new exodus of business from the ghettos. In Washington, Baltimore, Chicago, Cincinnati and some other cities, many merchants whose stores were looted, vandalized and burned started pulling out. Most of them say they are leaving for good. "You can't get insurance around here," says Christ Boulahanis, whose hot-dog stand on Chicago's West Roosevelt Road was a total casualty. Near by, William Sheldon, the elderly owner of Sheldon Radio & TV shop, has nothing left after doing business in the same store...
Georgia now has 11 Negro legislators, McGill notes, more than any other states except Michigan and Illinois. All but one of the eleven come from Atlanta, where the influx of blacks from rural areas and the exodus of middle class whites to the suburbs have left the city with a 43 per cent black population. McGill claims that within about four years Atlanta will very likely have a Negro mayor...
Meanwhile California's academic administrators complain that faculty morale is at an alltime low, worry about the steady exodus of star professors, and insist that what was once the nation's finest system of public higher education is in danger of heading to ward mediocrity. Last week John Summerskill, 42, resigned after two years as president of San Francisco State, home of one of the nation's first student-initiated "free colleges" and a campus noted for its unorthodox ways. Lamenting the "financial starvation" that faces his college, Summerskill complained that "the political leadership is tuned...
...another large segment of exiles, the rationale is less articulate and perhaps myopic. Most of the radical Americans in Montreal are either college dropouts or recent graduates. But the publicity that has attended their exodus has filtered down to a younger and more naive group. More and more high-school dropouts, teeny-boppers, and hippies are arriving in Montreal armed with little money and less ability to rationalize what they are doing here...