Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...waves that swept as far as 15 miles inland across the low-lying rice land and coconut gardens of the Krishna River delta. About 150 sq. mi. of land became a solid sheet of water. Twenty-one villages, 13 of them in the delta, were inundated, leaving 2 million homeless. The port of Machilipatnam, 20 miles upriver, was destroyed. All told, about 2 million acres were affected, including 200,000 acres of rice ready for harvesting...
...higher than anything anybody had ever seen," said Davis Jackson, head of the Country Club Plaza, the sprawling downtown hotel and shopping complex. "No one had ever thought they would live long enough to see it." When the flood receded hours later, 24 were dead, 1,200 were homeless, and damage was estimated at $50 million...
...College-a small, private and long financially troubled women's college near White Plains, N.Y. -sold its 55-acre campus out from under some 300 students. But rather than die outright or be absorbed by burgeoning Pace University, which had bought the facility for its nearby Westchester campus, homeless Briarcliff proposed a desperate sort of scholastic piggyback. It hoped to share its remaining faculty and students with yet another small, private and financially strapped women's college: Bennett, a two-year junior college with 230 students. Under the tentative plan, Briarcliff would attract many of its undergraduates...
...wicked weather also brought drought, flood and one major tragedy In Johnstown, Pa. (pop. 41,000), site of the deadliest deluge in U.S. history,* a seven-hour thunderstorm produced floods that left at least 46 people dead more than 50,000 homeless and an estimated $200 million in damages...
...people who made Avenue of the Americas and It's Raining in Santiago share that dream--a dream of a wealthy society in which all share in a country's wealth, where foreign capital does not exploit cheap labor, where children are no longer malnourished and no one is homeless. Both these films may be biased in favor of Allende, but it is hard not to be, given the nature of the junta and its supporters. And it is hard to leave the films without some faith that Allende was right, that the forces which created the Chilean junta cannot...