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...biggest grant of the night of $1500 went to the Phillips Brooks House Homeless Committee to help defray the costs of operating a shelter in Cambridge...
Years ago, before St. Henry's Roman Catholic Church was built in Pompano Beach, they had a sort of circuit-riding parish in this part of Florida. Mass was celebrated in whatever shelter could be secured, and there was one odd period when the priest said Mass at the Pompano Park Harness Raceway. Then, ten years ago, the diocese found 4½ acres along the Cypress Creek Canal, in an area of warehouses-Waterbed City is just across the street-and a little church was constructed. It has a coral pulpit...
...Army, Air Force and Coast Guard had offered the use of vacant defense facilities to more than 600 communities. But many military bases were too remote for the inner-city homeless. One base commander would not permit food at a shelter; others would not let the poor walk beyond the buildings' grounds. As a result, there were only two takers for the funds, Philadelphia and California's Alameda County. Total amount: $900,000. In August, Defense Department officials realized that the remaining $7.1 million would be lost if it was not spent soon. A House committee went along...
Heading up one line, a tuxedoed Mike Keating stood in the shelter of the Baronet Theater, feigning nonchalance...
...possessions on top of mules and camels or carried what they could: a lantern, a teapot, a generations-old copy of the Koran. While it was dark, they traveled fast along the rough mountain roads; during the day, when planes or helicopters reappeared in the skies, the refugees took shelter amid the rocks and trees...