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...South's Negroes, despite their economic progress, have been moving north for 40 years; today 2,500 Negroes arrive in Chicago every month. This exodus from the South, an ultimately healthy process, is checked by the wretched conditions under which many Negroes live in Northern cities. The contribution of the North and West to the greatest internal problem facing the nation is not to give in to the Eastlands, nor to try to match them in rancor. It is to hasten the progress of Negroes outside the South, while pressing for all "deliberate speed" in the enforcement...
...incoming traffic will be halted during the practice, Burke said, and all outgoing vehicles will be encouraged to pick up pedestrians along the way. Final destinations of the exodus are rural areas far enough from Greater Boston to insure safety from H-bomb effects...
Confronted by an increasingly rapid exodus of industry, money, and residents, last May, a Cambridge group headed by Paul R. Corcoran sent a workable program for Urban Renewal to Washington. Although it was approved there in October, little but talk has come of it since then...
...perhaps the only answer to Cambridge's long range problems, the greatest of which is the steady decline in population over the last few decades. By consolidating business and industrial sections, raising and enforcing housing standards, and clearing slums, Urban Renewal should go far toward stopping the local exodus of business and residents, solving the parking problem, and making Cambridge a more attractive city...
...Arthur M. Maloney, Assistant Professor of Prosthetic Dentistry, who had earlier resigned from the board because he felt it was not necessary, criticized the Committee's action. "There was no need for such a mass exodus," he said last night. "Such a move proves little and I am glad I was not a part of it," he added...