Word: shelters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Blight. First stop, an hour out of Washington, was "Dumfries wayside shelter," an undistinguished oasis on Interstate 95 with two picnic tables and a red-brick colonial toilet. "Virginia highways are the cleanest and least cluttered in the nation," boasted Virginia's Governor Albertis Harrison Jr. as Lady Bird dedicated the site, first roadside rest area to be financed under the interstate expressway program...
...Movie Theater-Chain Executive George P. Skouras (over 200 United Artists houses in 50 cities), herself the tireless, unpaid international chairman of Boys Towns of Italy, who regularly toiled 14 hours a day organizing committees and arranging benefits to support the ten towns and 31 nurseries which now shelter 6,700 Italian orphans; of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; in Manhattan...
Synonon, a word derived from a junkie's mispronunciation of seminar, is the name given to a self-help haven for drug addicts, founded seven years ago in California and now offering shelter and hope to 550 ex-addicts on both coasts. Filmed at Synanon House in Santa Monica, this tawdry little melodrama explains the method only sketchily, but exploits it at length...
...setting is an underground shelter fitted with intercoms and tape recorders and guarded by an electrified fence that dims the light whenever a stray animal is electrocuted. A family is hiding here from an unspecified "it" that is "moving west." Mother Eileen Heckart mangles French and Italian phrases and listens raptly to off-key recordings of her opera-diva days. She is a Venus's-fly-trap who has devoured "Fa" (he is too contemptible to deserve the other syllable) and dragooned Daughter Lakme (Susan Anspach) and Son Sigfrid (Robert Drivas) into performing strange little rituals like strewing...
...Gard Wiggins, administrative vice-president of the University, insisted Wednesday that there is no connection between what Harvard is doing about shelter and what M.I.T. is doing. He said that Harvard had already compiled with most the Civil Defense Office's requests...