Word: shelterer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Angeles, Federal Appeals Court Judge Harry Pregerson did as much for the homeless as any municipal organization. He searched out an obscure legal provision permitting the use of federal property for emergency shelter, then targeted a 134-acre supply center as a likely site. Last week, as the city shivered in unusual 36 degrees weather, the shelter opened with 100 beds, and 100 more will be added in the next few weeks. "I felt a deep concern for people sleeping on the streets," says Pregerson. "It's a disgrace to our whole country...
...weirdo. As a boy in the casket-making town of Lynn, Ind., he used to conduct elaborate funeral services for dead pets. Later, as a struggling preacher, he went from door to door, in bow tie and tweed jacket, selling imported monkeys. After briefly fleeing to South America (a shelter, he believed, from an imminent nuclear holocaust), the man who regarded himself as a reincarnation of Lenin settled in Northern California and opened some convalescent homes. Then, one humid day in the jungles of Guyana, he ordered his followers to drink a Kool-Aid-like punch soured with cyanide...
Eminent domain is still in Vellucci's vocabulary. Last winter he proposed forcing the University to sell the Harvard Motor House to the city for use as a shelter for homeless people. Nothing came of that, either...
While authorities in other cities are watching Seattle with interest, most are content to rely on existing laws rather than introduce new ones. Faced with well over 350,000 homeless wandering the streets in search of food and shelter, cities cannot hope to get rid of beggars. The problem isn't panhandling, says Patrick Murphy, director of the police policy board of the U.S. Conference of Mayors and former New York City police commissioner. "It's an entire social structure. Without proper housing, there is little hope for a solution...
...home, expectations are rising. Some small-scale private enterprise is now legal, and state industries will soon have wide new freedoms. Even Gorbachev concedes that his regime's true test will be whether it can produce better food, clothing and shelter for its citizens. No leader has said that with such vigor and conviction since Nikita Khrushchev a quarter-century...