Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Detroit and Lansing and Grand Rapids were under aerial bombardment? Do you think the police and other public-safety organizations could handle the situation under attack without the National Guard to provide the disciplined leadership and control to handle casualties, open lines of communication, protect and care for the homeless, maintain order and restore civilian production? . . . Indeed, the National Guard has accepted a new role. Under a program announced recently, the Guard will assume a major share of the responsibility for guarding major industrial and population centers against such attacks as we have been considering...
...just been evicted and had nowhere to go. Abbé Pierre bedded them down in his ramshackle house in a run-down Paris suburb. In no time, the word got around that the "abbé with the beard" was a soft touch. His house became headquarters for the homeless...
...whether you believe or not," he tells the people who come. But the Abbé's example has its effect; one group has constructed a shrine to the Virgin out of wood and terra cotta and calls its area Notre Dame des Sans Logis (Our Lady of the Homeless). Behind his own house is a tiny brick chapel where Abbé Pierre regularly says Mass for the two priests, five seminarians and twelve laymen who work with...
...smoking President-Premier Mohammed Naguib, twinkling good will, likes to tour Egypt's hinterland in his favorite role: father of the people. Last week, when fire devastated the Nile village of Ibyar and razed 102 houses, he set forth on a special train to reassure the hundreds of homeless. On the way back to Cairo, his train stopped at neighboring Kafr ez-Zaiyat. As he stood on the back platform, acknowledging the cheers of 50,000 local fellahin, disaster paid a return visit. The Cairo-Alexandria Express roared down the northbound track, cutting a bloody swath through the crowd...
Next day the city of Vicksburg counted its casualties: at least 30 dead, 230 injured, 1,200 homeless, total damage at least $25 million...