Word: exoduses
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Before her tour ended, the chairman of the President's Commission on Rural Poverty, Kentucky Governor Edward T. Breathitt, had announced in New York that this group is preparing a report on ways to make rural areas and small towns attractive enough to reduce the annual exodus of some 600,000 Americans to the cities...
...sharply contested areas at the beginning of 1965). A telling piece of evidence is the flight of more than 1,000,000 South Vietnamese to the cities in the past year. Whatever their reasons-war-weariness, the lure of jobs or plain fear of the guerrillas-their exodus has markedly reduced the Viet Cong's rural base...
Despite the Pope's determination to uphold tradition, the conference participants concluded that the arguments about celibacy will continue-if for no other reason than the continuing exodus from the ministry of priests who intend to wed. The N.A.P.R. claims that about 400 U.S. priests have done so in the past 18 months.* Several speakers proposed structural reforms by which the church might regain the services of married clergymen. One suggestion: the creation of a special jurisdiction for married priests, within which they could continue their clerical functions. At the final session, the attending clerics overwhelmingly approved a resolution...
...both the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, was sworn in as the state's first chancellor of higher education. His urgent task will be to transform six state colleges devoted mainly to teacher training into high-quality liberal-arts colleges in an effort to stem New Jersey's exodus of college students to other states...
...fact escapes Robert Parrish, the director. Since he can't quite make Sellers a thing of beauty, he places him in a whirl of chi-chi clothes and Spanish opulence, occasionally adding a flamenco dancer. In case Sellers still sticks out as a funny man, Parrish drowns him in Exodus sound...