Word: exoduses
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Marina City was the idea of William L. McFetridge, president of the 300,000-member A.F.L.-C.I.O. Building Service Union, who hoped to stem the population exodus to the suburbs, give union members more work within the heart of Chicago. So promising is Marina City that a group of New York banks willingly granted it a 97% mortgage...
...argument that West Berlin is a good place for youth to get out of, it was a notable show of spirit-and much of it came from a notably spirited school: the Free University of Berlin. When the Communists put up the Wall in August, pessimists predicted a mass exodus of students and teachers from West Berlin. In fact, the reverse has happened. When it began its winter semester this month, the Free University was jammed to overflowing with a record enrollment of 13,000. "Afraid?" says one young professor. "Of course we're afraid...
...children. Some Pan American flights arriving in Miami have as many as 60 children on board, many traveling alone. When Castro's police halted one recent flight carrying 40 children, parents raised such a howl in the airport lobby that the order was rescinded. Behind the new exodus is a new fear: that Castro is planning to take children away from their families in order to train them in Communism...
UNIVERSITY: Otto Preminger, having disfigured G. B. Shaw (you must remember his "Saint Joan" of several years back), how has a crack at history itself: and the result is a seldom-recognizable version of the Israeli struggle for independence from British stewardship and Arab hatred, called EXODUS -- after a novel of that name to which it also bears but slight resemblance. The cast is as large as the film is long; stars include Paul Newman, Eve Marie Saint, Ralph Richardson, Peter Lawford, Lee J. Cobb and (inevitably) Sal Mineo. Afternoons and evenings...
Hollywood's aging (54), Austrian-born enfant terrible in the past has bulldozed sparkling performances even out of Frank Sinatra and Gene Tierney, turned out a succession of hits, from wittily naughty The Moon Is Blue to Exodus. For three weeks now he has been turning all Washington into a stage and making all its politicians merely players-and only walk-ons at that...