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...passport deadline approached last week, a panic-stricken exodus began. About 6,000 Moslems in India fled eastward into East Pakistan. Out of East Pakistan tramped 70,000 Hindus. They came on foot along dusty roads, carrying young and aged, with household goods loaded in bullock carts or in large bundles balanced on their heads. They crammed into train compartments or perched precariously on undercarriage beams. Thousands fled by steamer to Calcutta or jammed into buses. They clogged the roads and small wayside stations and spread out over adjoining fields. Most of them had no food, and the countryside...
Today starts a mass exodus of CRIMSON editors to the tiny village of Lobenguiatown. Mashonaland, somewhat north of the Upper Limpopo. The Crimeds' caravan of insoluble Copra rafts departs from Gloucester at 1635. They will be guided across the ocean by Edward J. Coughlin '52, noted international spy. Those unable to meet Coughlin's rigid security regulations will stay behind to put out the Commencement issues. No other Crime until September...
Kirkland has led the other Houses with 25 early vacationers, but the mass exodus will probably not start until tonight. Most students stick it out to the bitter end, however, and will, on Saturday, join their early-bird Yuletide vacationers...
...lost their land to the Israelis, last week got it back-symbolically. Reviving the ancient tradition of shemittah, or sabbatical year ("And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the fruits thereof: But the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie still"- Exodus, 23:10-11), Israeli rabbis turned over all the Jewish land to an Arab for the new Jewish year which starts Oct. 1. The land transfer has no legal standing...
...lowest on record (in the Kansas-Missouri flood, 12 inches fell in 72 hours). Overplanting of cotton, overgrazing of cattle is depleting the ground water supply. Arizona's $300 million agricultural economy is in peril from the years of dryness, and some alarmed Arizonans fear a general exodus from the state if rain doesn't come...