Word: exoduses
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...Zermatt citizens and a British tourist. At least 350 confirmed or suspected cases of typhoid had been traced to recent Zermatt visitors in Switzerland and eight foreign countries. Little Zermatt was suddenly in the headlines all over the world. Virtually all the 10,000 tourists had staged a hurried exodus, leaving Zermatt a ghost town occupied by 120 green-uniformed Swiss army medical corpsmen. By sealed train and helicopter, the army men evacuated local victims, and health inspectors poking through Zermatt's water system discovered the probable cause of it all-a hole in a water pipe into which...
...lesser stars from the class of '65, the indoor team churned through ten straight dual meet victories this winter. Coach McCurdy says that going outdoors will produce some problems for the team, but because of the addition of three, events in which the Crimson is particularly strong, the exodus from Briggs Cage should help more than it will hurt...
...base and to attract industry. Of course, tax base is a legitimate concern of any community and is a part of any renewal program. Moreover industry moving out of Cambridge to Route 128 is understandably painful to the city's businessmen. Renewal would help to stop the exodus...
...congregation of 68 families, most of them from Texas, and their minister, will begin a mass move to the unassuming town of Bay Shore, L.I., a New York City suburb chosen for what the migrants conceive to be a novel blend of wholesomeness and godlessness. The purpose of "Exodus-Bay Shore" is to give that part of Long Island its first "pure-gospel" church, and the move is being sponsored by one of the nation's few big made-in-U.S.A. religious groups-the evangelical, expansive (2,250,000 members) Churches of Christ,* which dot Texas, Tennessee...
...exodus was planned as carefully as a corporation hunts out a new plant site. Evangelist Dwain Evans, 29, preacher of the proposed church, and a committee of elders scouted six other communities before choosing Bay Shore, which has the advantage of being near Long Island's aircraft and electronics plants. Recently, a number of corporations sent representatives to Dallas to interview members of the new congregation about jobs; a number of Long Island school boards similarly solicited teachers. But faith more than fortune lies behind the exodus. "It is the will of God," says Evans, "that...