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...most telling statistics about Wellesley is the fact that one-third to one-half of the junior class leaves in a great exodus every year to go abroad or to participate in the 12-College Exchange, of which Wellesley is a member. "Because Wellesley is single-sex and so isolated, everyone wants to get away at one time or another," says Jordan, who will probably spend next year at the University of California at Berkeley. "Wellesley is too mellow for me; I miss the 'real' college atmosphere of frats, football games and parties," she says...
...that didn't deter droves from watching the men compete in a profoundly boring meet. The spectators paid their money, watched the meet, then left in a great exodus before the really exciting meet of the day began at 4 p.m. when the women's team swam the University of Maine...
Incentives are sorely needed. Viet Nam's economic growth rate is under 2%. The exodus of "boat people" refugees left severe labor shortages. Factories are falling apart. All homes and businesses forgo electricity one day each week so that more oil will be available for the war in neighboring Kampuchea. A year ago, the gasoline ration was three liters a month; now it is four liters every three months. The Soviet Union contributes about $5 million a day in economic assistance, but its value is limited. Explains a Vietnamese economist: "You can't buy American technology or Canadian...
...Iraqi artillery barrages were primarily designed to drive out the civilian defenders who have backed up the Iranian armed forces with guerrilla operations. The bombardment, in fact, set off a mass exodus from the Khorramshahr-Abadan area. More than 300,000 people sought refuge in the small town of Shadegan, 20 miles to the northeast. Late in the week, Iraqi forces captured Abadan's radio station, which is almost two miles outside the city, but it was not immediately clear whether the Iraqis would choose to lay a prolonged siege around the burning city and thus spare themselves infantry...
...Cambridgeport. Corruption, patronage and inefficiency, at times the hallmark of city government, have given way to an administration more professional and more competent. There are signs of a rosy economic future filled with jobs and tax dollars for a city that was hit hard by the southward industrial exodus. Tenants, once strained by rising rents, are protected by rent control, and landlords, increasingly, are guaranteed fair profit. Even the thorny problem of desegration seems to have been handled smoothly...