Search Details

Word: exoduses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...Communist dictatorship, some 3,000 refugees have come streaming helter-skelter across the storm-tossed Florida Straits in everything from 110-ft. cruisers to leaky outboards. Last week the U.S. and Cuba were finally close to a formal agreement that will guarantee the "safe and orderly exodus" that the U.S. has been seeking from the first. In Havana, Swiss Ambassador Emil Stadelhofer spent more than seven hours talking to Castro, including one long session in a suburban pizzeria. Stadelhofer then reported that the Cuban dictator had agreed to do it more or less...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cuba: And Now by Air | 11/5/1965 | See Source »

While some 300 Roxbury parents are scraping the bottom of the barrel to bus their children out of ghetto schools, the School Committee coolly sanctions overcrowding in Roxbury--and in white Charlestown. While white neighborhood schools accept Operation Exodus peacefully, the Hicks alliance refuses to heed this lesson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Chance for Boston Schools | 11/2/1965 | See Source »

...dictator agreed that top priority should go to refugees who have immediate relatives in the U.S. He also accepted "in principle" the suggestion that both Havana and Washington discourage any ragtag exodus of Cubans outside the framework of a formal U.S.-Cuban agreement, although up to now Castro did not seem to care how they got across. One point Castro avoided was whether he would give his 50,000 political prisoners "second priority" as the U.S. suggested. Nor did he reply to the U.S. offer of air or sea transportation or go into the matter of what ports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cuba: Gusanos' Paradise | 10/22/1965 | See Source »

...preliminary election vote is any indication (Mrs. Hicks ran way out in front and Eisenstadt was second), a large number of people were convinced. Mrs. Hicks' proportion of the vote increased substantially over the 1963 returns in atleast four of the precincts containing Exodus-receiving schools...

Author: By William H. Smock, | Title: Operation Exodus: Rebuff to Politicians | 10/18/1965 | See Source »

...other hand, Operation Exodus has provided important lessons for the present and the future. For the present, it has demonstrated that busing large numbers of Negro children into white schools does not lead to riots and mass withdrawals. Despite the way they voted, few white parents went so far as to withdraw their children from the schools receiving Negro students...

Author: By William H. Smock, | Title: Operation Exodus: Rebuff to Politicians | 10/18/1965 | See Source »

Previous | 238 | 239 | 240 | 241 | 242 | 243 | 244 | 245 | 246 | 247 | 248 | 249 | 250 | 251 | 252 | 253 | 254 | 255 | 256 | 257 | 258 | Next