Word: shelterer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Wilkes-Barre horse track, lies above the town on one of the ridges. It was there, as millions witnessed on network television, that many of the 100,000 evacuees from the city were first brought. In the midst of betting windows and grandstand seats, displaced residents were given temporary shelter and emergency first aid before being scattered out to Civil Defense refuges and hospitals around Luzerne County. Once emergency operations were switched to the Wilkes-Barre-Scranton Airport the track reverted to its former function and within a week after the disaster ponies were again trotting where weary refugees...
...hijackers, as demanded by the pilots. The U.S. has come out for neither action, favoring instead appropriate trial and penalty within local laws. In Montreal, however, the International Civil Aviation Organization, a specialized U.N. agency, directed its legal committee to draft a convention permitting sanctions against nations that shelter or fail to punish hijackers...
Suddenly a scuffle started, and 50 cops with rubber truncheons charged the group, beating students on their heads, backs and legs and hitting out at passers-by and journalists. Even a few plainclothes policemen were beaten. Several students tried to take shelter inside the church, but were dragged back into the street by police...
...songs roll on, Jagger wiggles his flanks in Guitarist Keith Richard's face. Singing the frantic Gimmie Shelter, Jagger stands fey in the middle of it, bouncing time with one scarecrow leg, left hand inverted on his hip like an artist balancing before his easel. For Tumbling Dice, he strips off his denim jacket to reveal a sheer white jersey shirt that matches the clinging pants. And then Mick dances around Bassist Bill Wyman standing stiff and still in his new suit, sips on a Coors between choruses, trades vocal lines with Richard...
...Washington Square Park on Sundays. Some even get picked up on arrival at the Port Authority bus terminal. Sometimes the girls are kidnaped outright, like Chickie. More often they are hungry, discouraged, possibly drug-addicted, ready for the smooth stud in the broad-brimmed hat whispering promises of food, shelter, drugs and his special brand of love...