Word: homeless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...London alone, seven families each day become officially homeless, and the rate is rising. Most often the victims are young couples with several children. Landlords can rent single rooms most profitably to childless tenants, and even for a dingy, three-room basement apartment without private bath or kitchen can usually get far more than a working-class family can afford: up to $20 a week in a country where the average weekly wage is $42. For a London scrap-metal dealer and his pregnant wife, "home" after working hours is a three-ton truck. A common racket for landlords...
Heartbreak Houses. In London, homeless mothers and children are boarded at their own expense (from $14 a week) at one of five London County Council centers, where husbands are allowed to visit only in the evenings until 9:30, and for a few hours at weekends. One of the biggest is South London's Newington Lodge, a grim, high-walled pile of sooty red brick. Known in welfare-state parlance as "suitable alternative accommodation"-though it lacks a sick bay, nursery, playroom and adequate toilets-Newington Lodge last week held 266 women and children from 72 fragmented families...
...Brentwood, a gale-whipped brush fire-the worst in Southern California's history -had sent up in Argenta-mink smoke 447 homes (bottom price: $50,000), left behind more than $24 million in insurance claims, and the flossiest refugees since the Russian Revolution. Among the homeless were Actor Cliff Robertson, Joan Fontaine, Comedian Arnold Stang, Bandleader Orrin Tucker. All that was left of Burt Lancaster's $500,000 estate was a mailbox, an exercise bicycle and a smoldering set of barbells. Poking through his own $100,000 ruins, Joe E. Brown uncovered only some oddments and the dress...
Still, a new kind of problem child has replaced the vanishing orphan in the U.S.'s conscience. He is the child who is homeless as a result of divorce, illegitimacy, parental abuse or mental illness-orphaned in spirit if not in fact. There are 283,000 of these children. About 96,000-the emotionally disturbed, the mentally retarded, the medically ill-are cared for in special institutions. The rest are the beneficiaries of that phenomenal revolution in society, the foster home...
Slowly the sect grew; whole families joined, and the ranks were swelled by the unmarried mothers and homeless children the Shakers took in. Book learning was not their specialty, but their unsparing attention to plain, practical craftsmanship has made Shaker furniture a landmark in the history of design. Visitors to Hancock Shaker Village are shown their graceful, high-backed chairs and the pegs around their rooms, about 6 feet from the floor, on which they hung the chairs when not in use, to make housecleaning easier. Their window frames were held in place by wooden thumbscrews, which permitted removal...