Word: exoduses
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...Free Press 15 weeks ago. And never before has the prospect of settlement looked bleaker. Except for minor concessions, the two sides remained just as far apart as they were when Freeman Frazee, president of the Detroit printing pressmen's union, led his men off both papers-an exodus joined by one other union, the paper and plate handlers. "Smoky" Frazee has clung stubbornly to his demands, which include premium pay for pressmen working Saturdays. The papers have been equally adamant in refusing them...
Silver's loyalty to his state in the face of outside criticism is always apparent. Writing to Time magazine, published in New York, Silver attempts to minimize the exodus of faculty and students from Ole Miss as a result of the riot. Yet, he does not mince words when addressing fellow Mississippians. In a letter written six months later to the Jackson, Miss., Clarion Ledger, he lists 39 faculty members who have left and adds, "Scores of our most talented students will not return in September...
...after that, the white exodus to the suburbs changed the neighborhood into a Negro enclave. Negro lawyers, doctors and businessmen bought the comfortable houses along La Salle Boulevard that were vacated by whites. Poorly educated Negroes, including migrants from the South, poured into nearby tenements to supply the bulk of Central's students. On form, the school's reputation seemed imperiled. Instead, says English Teacher Vunies High (sister of Joe Louis), "the student body has come alive...
...argot of the French underworld, a poulet (chicken) is a cop, a poule (hen) a prostitute, and a maquereau (mackerel) a pimp. What caused the commotion this summer was the invasion of Nice by a band of poules and maquereaux who had left their native Algeria in the exodus of French settlers when the country became independent. The invaders found a friend in Nice-Gangster Ange Bianchini, 48, who dabbles in the manufacture of pastis, the licorice-flavored apéritif, as well as in crime...
Died. Stewart Holbrook, 71, author and historian, a salty New Englander who in 20 fast-moving, informative volumes on early America (The Age of the Moguls, The Yankee Exodus) often found the human side more interesting than the heroic, serving up such tidbits as Ethan Allen's incurable love of "stonewalls" (cider laced with rum) and the fact that Billy the Kid in real life was a bucktoothed adenoid case; of a stroke; in Portland...