Word: influxes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SCOPE (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.; 7-7:30 p.m. in New York). "The Freedom Shuttle: Dilemma in Miami," a study of the problems created by the influx of Cuban refugees...
...sources. At 5:18, the 300,000-kw. influx reversed; in seconds, 1.5 million kw. were surging northward, draining the city at its moment of peak demand. Before Nellis could halt the outflow by cutting Con Ed off from CANUSE, lights began flickering all over the city until only a scintilla of orange glowed from each bulb. For an instant, the lights surged on again; and then, like a theater at curtain time, New York sank into darkness...
Newspapers and broadcasting stations received hundreds of letters and phone calls objecting to the new influx of immigrants. Said Miami Mayor Robert King High: "No one community can assimilate any great number of people who come here with limitations of speech and no money." Governor Haydon Burns warned of possible "economic chaos." Dade County School Superintendent Joe Hall ordered that all newly arrived Cuban children be excluded from classrooms until the Federal Government provides more funds for their education...
...Stade blamed the disturbances on the influx of Cambridge youths who roam through the Yard on weekends, looking for excitement. He said the suspension of parietals was a preventive measure, to give the Administration time to decide on ways of stopping outsiders from crashing parties...
President Johnson has magnanimously offered to open U.S. gates to Cuban refugees and all "oppressed peoples." Castro's decision to liberalize Cuban emigration policy left the President no political alternative. From a humanitarian standpoint, however, our economic system and legal code are not geared to the large scale influx of Cubans which may follow...