Word: exoduses
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...independence of Morocco, Tunisia and now Algeria-joyful news to Moslems-has for Jews signaled another vast and melancholy exodus like so many other uprootings since Moses. A decade ago, 250,000 Jews lived in Morocco. 150,000 in Algeria and 100,000 in Tunisia; now about half of them have left. Last week alone, 5,000 North African Jews arrived by ship and plane in Marseille. By 1975, Jewish leaders estimate, their communities in North Africa will be reduced to less than 15% of their former size...
Some North African Jews have, of course, gone to Israel, but more than two-thirds have settled in France, if for no better reason than that they speak French. Thanks to the exodus, France now has the fourth largest Jewish community in the world.* Jewish, Christian and nonreligious charitable organizations have collaborated to help the newcomers, but their life is often unbearably hard...
...city is a mausoleum -- mighty and serene. One could spend hours reciting the mortuary charms of its innumerable cemeteries, with their illustrious dead, which dot the city's main sections as well as its periphery. The flight of industry to the South, the corruption of local politics, and the exodus of the Best People into the suburbs has decisively doomed Boston. But the ashes of a greatness that is gone remain to beguile and delight the summer visitor...
...prison cell, the captured leader of the S.A.O., ex-General Raoul Salan, backed the truce. The fanatical S.A.O. leadership in Oran swore to continue the struggle. S.A.O. mortar shells landed on oil tanks near Oran. In Bone, the city hall was put to the torch by S.A.O. fanatics. The exodus of Europeans continued at the rate...
...beginning of the week to 81½ on Thursday, closed on Friday at 98. Even blue-chip A.T.& T. had a hard week, sliding from 109 to 105⅞. Said Sidney B. Lurie, a partner in Manhattan's Joseph-thai & Co.: "There's a mass exodus on the part of investors. The professionals raised their cash earlier in the year; now the amateurs are getting...