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Detroit's school system also is faced with a declining tax base. In addition to the exodus to the suburbs, homes and businesses worth $64 million were burned down during the 1967 ghetto riots and never rebuilt. Thus, the school district lost $91 million in revenue over the past five years-a bit more than the present deficit. The schools also have lost $2,000,000 a year in revenue because in the past decade Detroit has taken $150 million worth of private property for 23 miles of freeways to take suburbanites to their city jobs...
...shoppers laid in extra supplies of food-not because they feared civil chaos, but because of widespread expectations that Thieu might extend the 11 p.m. to 5 a.m. curfew. A very few South Vietnamese suddenly decided that it was time to "visit relatives in Paris." But there was no exodus by Thieu's middle-and upper-class constituency, and no important defections from his regime. The coup rumors that floated through Saigon's cafes only a month or two ago had faded away, although, like the fighting war, they could resurface with a vengeance at any time...
After the Great Exodus of the spring of 43 (when the future was viewed in terms of khaki and navy blue and what-the-hell), it got so quiet in the little red-brick building on the one-way cowpath, 14 Plympton Street, you could hear a split-infinitive drop. Most of the Crimeds had gone off to the wars, leaving behind them something they'd started as a weekly to serve naval and military personnel, something they now hoped would be able to publish the news of the whole University twice a week; something called the Harvard Service News...
What is the cause of the problem? A lack of good plays? The unions? The exodus to the suburbs? The economy? A major factor is the decline of the Times Square-Broadway neighborhood, with its prostitutes, massage parlors and porno emporiums. Producer David Merrick complains of "those wise guys who like to crack jokes on TV about being bumped on the head in the streets of New York...
...support of legalized abortion, his attitude toward drugs, his proposed "surrender" to Communist North Viet Nam and amnesty for draft dodgers, these lower-and middle-class Catholic voters deserted the Democratic national ticket in record numbers, contributing significantly to Nixon's margins in the industrial Northern states. The ethnic exodus from...