Word: homeless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Homeless Archie. Grant has many apes but few friends. In Hollywood-he has a mansion in Beverly Hills-he runs with no pack and is rarely seen at parties or premiéres. "I don't know anyone who has been to Grant's house in the last ten years," says Director Billy Wilder. Grant steadfastly insists that he has as much right to his privacy as a plumber or a municipal clerk. When people ask for his autograph he gives them an incredulous look as if they were trying to crash a party, and if some jolly...
...will give you an idea what kind of family I came from"), son of a textile worker in provincial Britain. When Archie was twelve, his father deserted his mother, a tall and commanding woman who for a time went to pieces under the shock of rejection. Little Archie, essentially homeless, turned to show business and ran away to join a troupe of acrobats...
...flashed an occasional smile as he moved among his guests at a cocktail party in the Blue House, Korea's presidential palace. In Seoul, flower-bedecked streetcars and freshly painted aquamarine Jeep taxis rolled smoothly over newly paved, neon-lighted roads. The city's 1,500 youthful, homeless ragpickers had been rounded up, dressed in blue fatigue uniforms and drafted into a service corps for rehabilitation...
Last Cake. When Angela Thirkell died last year at 71, readers accustomed to spending at least part of each year in Barsetshire felt summer-homeless. But the novelist had left five chapters of a new book, and Writer C. A. Lejeune, former film critic for the London Observer, undertook to pick up the almost invisible plot thread. Fittingly enough, she ended the book with a huge 70th birthday party for Mrs. Morland, the dithery novelist who, readers justifiably suspected, more than slightly resembled Author Thirkell. After the last bit of cake has been eaten, there comes a final passage whose...
Last week 1,500 Rio slum dwellers were homeless after the sandy hillside on which they perched gave way. Luckily, no one was killed. A few years ago, thousands lost their homes in a similar slum slide...