Word: exoduses
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...CFIA has its roots in the political and intellectual pressures of Cold War diplomacy. The election of Eisenhower in 1952 and the subsequent ascendancy of McCarthyism caused a prolonged, steady exodus from Washington of former Truman advisors and government officials who had been hunted down and indicted by Senate subcommittees. Many of these people retired to universities around the country, and a large number of them found their way to Harvard. Abruptly dislodged from the practice of internal and international politics, they were seeking, many of them, an outlet for their talents...
Including a recently approved 6% across-the-board raise, the pay of the typical white-collar civil servant has been increased by about 55% in the past decade. To halt what had been an exodus of managers and key technicians from Government, salaries for the so-called supergrades, GS-16 to GS-18, have been raised as much as 80%. A GS-18 employee, typically a division chief in a department, earned $18,500 in 1960; today the pay is $35,505. Many private employers consider the top rates to be outrageously high. They complain that they cannot afford...
Some people had thought Preminger to be a quasi-radical for filming Exodus. The pro-Jewish liberation content made martyrs of the extremists-terrorists who were instrumental in the overthrow of the system. ( cf. Battle of Algiers ) But times had changed...
...exodus, under the command of Lieut. General Michael S. Davison, was proceeding in textbook style. The remaining 12,000 U.S. fighting men in Cambodia were exiting in about equal numbers by helicopter, armored vehicle and foot. They were under strict orders to evacuate all their equipment in order to prevent the Communists from using any of it if and when they try to reoccupy the gutted sanctuaries in eastern Cambodia. Davison ordered the emplacement of numerous fire-support bases just inside South Viet Nam to shield the last men coming out with an umbrella of artillery shells...
...closest to the capital that such long-range weapons have been discovered. At week's end some 8,000 civilians and more than a battalion of Cambodian troops were evacuated from two towns in the northeast. Communist forces have controlled most of the area for weeks, and the exodus apparently conceded the urban strongholds as well as the countryside to them...