Word: donnas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Panelist Donna Townsend, who runs a YMCA shelter for both homeless individuals and families, said that at least a third of the area's homeless are not "housing-ready"--that is, they cannot find housing, maintain an apartment or raise children on their own. Another third, she said, "needs some guidance" in order to live independently. She said the hypothetical housing project should provide for free classes on housekeeping, reading and child care...
...first glance, the passport looks richly authentic. Its burgundy, textured- vinyl cover is stamped with gold lettering that reads, PASSPORT, REPUBLIC OF CEYLON. Trouble is, Ceylon is now Sri Lanka and the passport is a fake. Or, to use the euphemism favored by Creator Donna Walker, a 49-year-old former travel agent, "It's not counterfeit; it's camouflage...
...Hollywood, Jeeps have been chic for nearly a decade. Doug Didriksen, president of Walker Brothers Jeeps in West Los Angeles, traces the trend to 1978, when he began selling four-wheelers to entertainment figures. (Bob Newhart, Kenny Rogers, Sly Stallone, Donna Summer and Steven Spielberg have been his customers.) Says Didriksen: "I don't know that I've seen one trend that has been sustained as long as this. It started slowly and has never dipped...
...tragedy. Jessica's teenage parents Chip, 18, and Reba, 17, live in a blue-collar section of Midland (pop. 100,000), a drilling center hard hit by the oil slump. Chip McClure is a house painter, and Reba helped baby-sit at the home of her sister-in-law Donna Johnson. It is still unclear how Jessica managed to fall through the 8-in. opening, partly covered only by a flowerpot, in the Johnson backyard. But suddenly last Wednesday she was wedged in a dogleg in the shaft, 22 ft. beneath the surface...
...slate are Donna Brescia, incumbent Francis H. Cooper, Henrietta Davis, Richard Griffin '51, Henry Lukas, Denise Simmons, John T. St. George '70-'72, and incumbent Larry Weinstein...