Word: homeness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...face of it, never had it so good. The city had no slums, no unemployment, no parking meters, no taxes. It boasted a shopping center, a hotel, nine schools, 28 churches, a library, a 109-bed hospital. Three-bedroom apartments rented for $35 a month, three-bedroom homes for $65. But gradually, townspeople sensed the tightness of their welfare-city cocoon. No family could own its home. Not general necessity but General Electric determined the site of stores and set their rents. Police, firemen, even the city librarian were G.E. employees. More and more, Richland residents began to move...
...soft drinks, as well as native reed-pipe music, color slides and movies. Next day, precisely at noon, surrounded by gifts of native handiwork-fish traps, bamboo baskets, buffalo and cattle bells, even blow guns-Alex and Elsie Johnson will sit down to Christmas dinner. And back home in Miami it will be midnight on Christmas...
...cotton balls on bamboo shoots will have to do. After the party the young American assistants will leave Banmethuot; two by two, they will scatter into remote settlements of Viet Nam, teaching still others to farm-earning still other copper bracelets that cannot be found under the tree at home...
...when Tenzing paid a visit to his home town in Solo Khumbu, his old neighbors accused him of turning Indian and making scads of money at the expense of Nepal. To protect himself and his elite colleagues, Tenzing set up a Solo Khumbu branch of the Nepal Climbers' Association, a union of Sherpas he heads. In retaliation, the Nepalese Sherpas started a rival union, put a blunt demand before the Nepal government that it outlaw all such foreigners as Tenzing from plying their trade in the country. But the last word would probably come from expedition leaders themselves. Said...
Betancourt moved to Costa Rica, joined a Communist-front group, met a pretty young schoolteacher named Carmen Valverde. The romance with Carmen flourished, the one with the Reds did not. Before he left Costa Rica for home in 1936 he married Carmen, but dropped out of the front to plant himself in the anti-Communist left. Back in Venezuela he led a revolutionary underground political party until 1939, when he was thrown out of Venezuela again, this time to Chile...