Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Grischa" Piatigorsky is currently busy writing his autobiography, which traces his remarkable career from his boyhood in the Ukraine to his arrival in the U.S. in 1929. A high point of the reminiscences comes with the time Piatigorsky was a homeless young refugee in Berlin and often had to sleep on park benches; once, seeking dry shelter for the night, he slipped into an empty concert hall and out of his rain-drenched clothes, but found himself unable to sleep and spent the time till morning playing his cello nude on the stage. He has also written a novel that...
Died. Murray W. Garsson, 67, sometime millionaire munitions maker and financier, who was convicted in 1947 in a bribery and conspiracy scandal involving Government war contracts, served 19 months in prison (1949-51), and ended his days homeless, borrowing small sums from his doctor for barbiturates; of a brain hemorrhage; in New York City. At war's end Garsson and his brother Henry, a consulting engineer, pasted together a paper empire (once valued at $78 million) of contracts for shells, mortars and aircraft parts, worked with lavish expense accounts through the chairman of the House Military Affairs Committee, Kentucky...
...throughout the centuries. Living in freedom and abundance, Mr. Rosenwald misconstrues the basic ideologies of Jewish consciousness, religion and nationalism. He probably doesn't know that synagogues are built for those who are well situated and have to be reminded about their Jewish heritage. But the starved and homeless Jew is quite aware of his heritage. No one is asking Mr. Rosenwald to integrate himself into the fabrics of Israel's nationalism. But it is a duty of every American Jew to aid Israel in its great plight for national freedom and integrity...
...suggest we open our hearts and pocketbooks to the homeless starving Arabs as well as the brave Hungarians...
...earth's only satellite, but astronomers make no such easy assumption. One of the planets, Saturn, is surrounded by millions of small objects that form its decorative rings, and the earth may have at least a few such followers. The solar system is littered with such homeless rubbish as asteroids, meteors and comets, and some of these may have settled into permanent orbits around the steady earth...