Word: shelterer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...those years before the Square bustled with its hectic profusion of hipboutiques, street people. Xerox services, and boarded-up windows, the Harvard Cooperative Society was a convenient and reasonably-priced college bookstore. It occupied an unpretentious Georgian structure near Harvard Trust with a friendly pillared entrance which provided ample shelter for bicycles and conversation...
...meeting of educators in Washington, D.C. Clearly incensed by the grand jury's conclusionsdisputed by both a Justice Department report and the Scranton CommissionWhite called them a "local manifestation of a brewing national disaster." They reveal a "frightening misunderstanding of higher education." Colleges cannot shelter lawbreakers, said White, but neither can they become places "where ideasno matter how offensiveare to be suppressed...
...Burning Fireplaces. The secret behind the five-year-old empire's paradoxical success is expensive, self-indulgent luxury. "We want to give the guest something more striking and exciting than he left behind," Gagosian explains. "The old motels that offer nothing much more than shelter are being wiped...
Mindful of Gagosian's success, other innkeepers are moving away from the motel industry's tradition of standardized shelter. Holiday Inns, for example, is planning an elaborate motel-resort at Hialeah near Miami. But Gagosian, who well remembers his hard life on the construction crew, has built a margin of safety into his luxury empire. "If times should get really bad in the economy," he says, "there is not a room in our chain that we couldn't rent for $8-and pay our expenses at 70% occupancy...
Sanctuary, a Cambridge group which provides shelter and counseling for Cambridge street people, must find a new site for its hostel soon...