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They are also probably the nation's most visible social failure. The homeless are everywhere. Theirs, however, is an ad hoc, nook-and-cranny geography. Hunkered down near a fence between a San Francisco freeway overpass and a grammar school. Asleep in the back room of an unguarded Chicago mortuary. Squatting near by in the dark eighth floor of an abandoned rooming house. Scrunched, and occasionally killed, inside Anchorage garbage dumpsters...
Most Houses have an ad hoc admissions committee led by the masters, which screens approximately 25 applicants for the guest suites each year. With fewer than five spaces available, the group must make numerous judgement calls about prospective guests' value to their House...
...plywood boxes as prisoner No. 1,120. "The rain came in the night and I was drenched," complained the Irish-educated lawyer, still indignant. "I need a vacation." Indeed, in the span of three three weeks, Radix, 41, has been imprisoned twice-first by the ad hoc Revolutionary Military Council (R.M.C.), the junta that overthrew and killed Prime Minister Maurice Bishop, then (for "spreading bad will among the people") by the U.S. forces that overthrew the R.M.C. Says Radix of Grenada's last month: "It was better theater than Shakespeare...
Having made the film their own, freeze advocates are now using it, in the words of Disarmament Activist Josh Baran, "to educate people. It is the best use of television I can think of." Last April, Baran helped start an ad hoc organization called The Day Before, which will work with 17 national antinuclear groups to set up seminars in more than 100 cities around the country for two days following the film's air date. Ground Zero will mail out 100,000 viewing guides. The Center for Defense Information is considering producing a 60-sec. commercial, narrated...
Bower: We have a problem we can't walk away from. We have to do something about it and we will do something about it. If we don't, we'll have more ad hoc interventions. I think it extremely valuable that the debate continue, and that it be as informed as possible...