Word: exoduses
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...hurricane into sub mission. One thing the weathermen could claim credit for now: their accurate, timely alarm. Carla did enormous property damage, perhaps a billion dollars' worth, but took few lives. The well-warned people of coastal Louisiana and Texas had fled to safety in the greatest mass exodus in U.S. history. Only a comparative few were killed. There was no mass tragedy as when Hurricane Audrey flooded Cameron, La., in 1957 and killed 590 people...
...Communists' East German wall was virtually complete. Behind it, Red Boss Walter Ulbricht could whip his sullen millions into line without fear of an other mass exodus. But barricading Berlin was just the first surprise Old Spitzbart (pointed beard) had in mind for the West. Last week, pointedly, arrogantly, he began to reach for more, and as a result, on the tense and anxious Berlin frontier more and more armed men faced each other with weapons at the ready...
Just in Time. For Walter Ulbricht, East Germany's goat-bearded, Communist boss, the wall was utterly necessary to preserve the very life of his dismal satrapy. For seldom had history witnessed so great an exodus as had been flowing Westward in great clotted spurts. "You are sharing in the Great Socialist Experiment," Ulbricht cried to his people in 1949, as he cut their food ration and trimmed away their liberties. Far from sharing Ulbricht's enthusiasm, almost 3,500,000 East Germans-no less than 20% of the post-World War II population-fled to the West...
...always full, but no one ever reads it." Out in the potato country, Central Committee Functionary Bruno Wagner was told flatly by a farmer: "One ought to listen more to the West." Refugees arriving in West Berlin said that lesser party hacks were unwittingly contributing to the exodus by boasting ominously that all exit routes to the West would soon be sealed off. Among the 150,000 refugees so far this year were over 500 doctors, whom East Germany can hardly afford to lose, more than 1,000 teachers, and last, week an East German supreme court judge...
...Kong: the widening river of desperate refugees fleeing to freer lands. Middle-class Cubans still come out aboard the twice-daily Pan Am flights to Miami. But now the humildes, the humble ones, la-'borers, rural peasants, fishermen, the very people Castro pretends to champion, have joined the exodus. They flee however they...