Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hager's new crown is his "Soul's Harbor Mission." In an old bar and barbecue joint he built a sanctuary with pulpit, piano, pews and mourner's bench, a bunkroom with modern kitchen, showers and storage areas. Hager opened his doors to the hungry and homeless on Jan. 8, 1956, has given lodgings to more than 4,000 of them, served 22,000 meals, and sent 650 converts to churches of their choice. Every night Ken Hager, now a minister of the Church of the Nazarene, welcomes them to an informal nondenominational service of hymn...
...Ordered an aircraft carrier, two destroyers, a seaplane tender and a group of Navy planes to Ceylon to aid 300,000 people left homeless as a result of disastrous floods...
...MIDDLE EAST The Homeless For nearly a decade, the most sensitive political ganglion in the strife-racked body of the Middle East has been the problem of the Arab refugees from Palestine. In tents and makeshift camps around Israel's borders from Gaza to Aleppo, they have lived-nearly 1,000,000 of them-in squalor and bitterness. Israel stubbornly refuses to take them back. The Arab countries just as stubbornly refuse to resettle them, on the grounds that this would be accepting defeat at the hands of Israel...
...election day Typhoon Kit howled across the northern Philippines, flooding villages, blocking roads, making thousands homeless. That night, sallow little President Carlos Garcia. 61, sat in a friend's home outside Manila, listening to the election returns and playing game after game of chess with an aide. When the radio reported that both the Liberals' Jose Yulo and the Progressives' Manuel Manahan were running ahead of him in Manila, Garcia played so badly that the aide won. But as the counting went on, the President's chess got better. By the next afternoon the typhoon that...
...plea to think about the bums before the city beautiful. It came from Wilbert L. Hindman, chairman of the Los Angeles Welfare Planning Council's Committee on Skid Row, a professor of business administration at the University of Southern California and member of the National Committee on the Homeless and Institutional Alcoholic. "Skid Row," said he, "is a very healthy institution. It has sprung up spontaneously to meet the demands of the homeless ones-the men who have resigned from society. It is not something that was dreamed up by a group of armchair planners without any real notion...