Word: exodusing
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...last year, the exodus had become something of a national scandal. Said Premier Eshkol: "We have been able to build and maintain the State of Israel by virtue of the quality of its citizens. But this qualitative superiority is today in danger. The pioneer of our day, the builder of the land, devoted, knowledgeable, diligent?where is he to come from...
...late '50's and early '60's, Preminger turned to social spectacle (Anatomy of a Murder, Exodus, Advice and Consent, The Cardinal). His latest movie, Hurry Sundown, has in fact prompted many critics to suggest that what Preminger did for the Jew in Exodus and for the Catholic in The Cardinal--whatever that is--he is now doing for the American Negro. But viewed as a picture about race relations, Hurry Sundown is meaningless and banal. The great social dilemmas of the age have somehow passed Otto Preminger by the way, and his perceptions seem no longer relevant...
Indeed, the main reasons for the big summer exodus from America this year are that the new low-fare airline deals for groups (as little as $230 round trip to London) and the go-cheap package tours ($398 for 15 days visiting London, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Nürnberg, Innsbruck, Venice, Florence, Rome, Lucerne and Paris). Such prices are within the range of almost everyone-from $90-a-week secretaries to $7,500-a-year family men. And already the big international airlines-TWA, Pan Am, BOAC -are booked solid for their 21-day trips throughout July and early August...
...better than a few years ago. Ironically, the Wall−which Ulbricht calls the "antifascist defense shield"−made the difference. Before the Wall went up in 1961, East Germany's economy was on the ropes, as many of the brightest workers, scientists and technocrats joined the exodus of 3,000,000 East Germans who voted with their feet and went Westward. Since then, 24,500 East Germans have managed to escape (137 were killed in the attempt), but most people have accepted the idea that they are trapped and decided to try and make the best...
...Instead of easing to a planned-for 7½%, growth plunged to a slim 1.2% last year. Corporate profits fell 15%, while unemployment, once virtually nonexistent, has risen to 10% of the labor force, or 99,000 workers. Population growth virtually halted as 12,000 Israelis, in the biggest exodus since the country was founded, emigrated in search of work. Even more startling were the queues at unemployment offices, when some 2,000 dispirited workers were handed monthly checks of up to $78 under the first dole in Israel's history...