Word: exoduses
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...Moreover, DeMille spent ten years in planning the picture, three years and $300,000 in research. After that, he spent almost three months in Egypt and the Holy Land, shooting his key scenes "in the very places where"-so the picture's publicity puts it-the episodes of Exodus transpired. In the flats back of Cairo, DeMille built the biggest movie set in history, a 60-acre mockup of the traditional "treasure city" of Per-Rameses that probably constituted the biggest piece of construction work undertaken in Egypt since the Suez Canal. For one scene alone, the beginnings...
...wives both hold jobs, find it impractical to shop on weekdays. Moreover, merchants who try to solve .the problem by keeping late weekday hours report that most customers prefer to shop (and invariably spend more) on Sunday, when they can take their time and bring the family. With the exodus to the suburbs and the growth of one-stop shopping centers (TIME, Oct. 15) in outlying areas, families have become accustomed to shopping by car. Says a Cleveland housewife: "Getting up late Sunday and shopping with the kids after a slow breakfast is fun. It's like going...
...disappeared with the French. Instead of privileged citizens, they became foreigners who themselves had to be assimilated. Those who had held good jobs under the French administration found that the Vietnamese government would hire them-at a low salary-only if they forfeited their French citizenship. With the exodus of French firms, it became difficult for them to find any sort of work. Premier Diem signed a law requiring all Vietnamese with names like Jean. Henri or Marcel to take genuine Indo-Chinese names like Nguyen, Tran or Trinh. Forced to choose between two worlds, many fled in desperation...
Prefab Synagogues. The Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America and United States Steel Homes, Inc. have joined in a project to build, furnish and arrange financing for prefabricated synagogues, day schools and community centers now needed as a result of the exodus to the suburbs. U.S. Steel, which also markets prefab churches, branch banks and homes, says a 325-seat synagogue can be erected within four days...
...biggest peacetime exodus from the U.S. to Europe was reaching its peak last week, there came some dollar-saving advice for the 1,250,000 tourists who will spend $2 billion abroad this year. Nicholas Deak, who heads Manhattan's Deak & Co. and Perera Co. foreign-exchange companies, said that travelers could save millions by buying their foreign currency on the U.S. free market before they leave. As it is, most travelers buy their lire, pesetas and francs abroad, where currency is often pegged at unrealistically high official rates. Travelers can beat the official rate by trading...