Word: exoduses
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...effort paid off-at least for the first week. Attendance in Detroit's 300 public schools averaged 83%, only 5% below normal. But whether the plan achieves its long-range goal of school integration in Detroit or-as it has in other towns-simply hastens the exodus of the city's whites remains to be seen...
...story "A Troubling Reverse Exodus" [Jan. 12], your readers are erroneously informed that I have emigrated from Israel...
World of Our Fathers does. A scholarly, fluent social history and a generous eulogy, the book spans nearly 100 years-from the exodus of Eastern Europe's Jews to the national acceptance of Woody Allen's gentle kvetching. The distance covered can be measured by a simple fact: even adjusted for inflation, the $33.50 it cost in 1903 for a steerage ticket from Bremen to New York would today scarcely cover a night on the town...
...Fall and Exodus. Despite the continuing argument, there is some convergence between heavenly Hartford and worldly Boston. The Hartford theologians, no social dropouts, insist that emphasis on God's "transcendence" and traditional faith is not only compatible with social action but strengthens it. The Bostonians profess that God "brings into being all resources, all life" and, on that basis, insist that Christians have a responsibility to tackle social ills. The argument proceeds through eight sections, bearing traditional titles ("Creation," "Fall" and "Exodus...
...Bread. The exodus figures loom even larger because of a sudden 50% drop in immigration; that is largely a result of the Kremlin's sharp cut back in the number of Russian Jews al lowed to leave the Soviet Union. Only 8,518 Russian Jews immigrated to Israel in 1975, compared with 16,816 in 1974 and 33,477 in 1973. Jerusalem is just as alarmed by the fact that 40% of new immigrants from Western countries have returned to their original homelands within five years. Last year a total of 19,000 Jews left Israel, while only...