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...Republicans decided to vote for the bill, fearing that to do otherwise would cost former Labor Secretary James Mitchell the support of labor in his run for the governorship. Five Massachusetts Republicans also voted "aye," if only to lift Southern wages closer to their own and thus slow the exodus of New England's textile industry to the South...
When the Redevelopment Authority demolishes houses in a renewal area, the administrators try carefully to relocate displaced families in quarters which satisfy all concerned. As John E. Connolly, executive director of the Authority, recently told the City Council, "There is no wholesale mass exodus at one time in any of these project areas. We would hope that before we brought a plan to the council (for approval), we would talk over changes with the people, ask them for suggestions, and try to incorporate them in the plan, if feasible." Apart from having a strong voice in the selection of their...
...mass exodus not only continues but is currently on the increase: over the Easter weekend, 5,200 refugees checked in at reception centers in West Germany and West Berlin. A total of 46,367 East Germans sought asylum in the West during the first three months of 1961-a 40% rise over the comparable period last year. Nowadays, most of the refugees remain in camps for only a few days of routine processing, then are sluiced on to jobs in booming, labor-short West German indus try. Although East German leaders have long expressed alarm at the continuing outflow...
...sought the fountain of youth and Wilson Mizner in the 19203 ordained his palaces of pleasure, winds of change are stirring with gale force. Florida, ending one of its balmiest winters in history, last week greeted the spread of spring across the North with remarkable equanimity. Once the northward exodus of tourists in the springtime rated with the hurricanes as a natu ral catastrophe, inevitably followed by a summer-long slump. Now Florida is the focus of a permanent population shift that has made it the fastest-growing state in the Union and a bustling, year-round center of industry...
Sportswear to Spinach. Though the state's fast growth has relieved Florida of its worry about the tourist exodus, it has brought a tangle of new problems. For one. the need for highways is pressing. The state has built 500 miles of four-lane roads in the past five years, but that does not begin to fill the need. Says newly elected Governor Farris Bryant: "We are a score of years and a billion dollars behind in highway construction." As fast as industry is coming into Florida, it still is not coming fast enough to supply the new jobs...