Word: orphaned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...used to meet the $2500 goal set last October by the Student Council. The six charities are the Eleanor Roosevelt Cancer Fund, Recording for the Blind, United Negro College Fund, MEDICO, KA-JWA (Farmer's Vocational School of Inchon, Korea), and the Foster Parent Fund, which sponsors a Vietnamese orphan...
Adopted. By Elizabeth Taylor, 29, Oscar-winning (Butterfield 8) cinema goddess, and Crooner Eddie Fisher, 33: Maria, a one-year-old orphan; announced in Rome. The couple has been "looking for a baby for about two years." Already living with the Fishers are two children of Miss Taylor's by former Husband Michael Wilding and one by Mike Todd. Fisher has two children of his own who live with ex-Wife Debbie Reynolds...
Congratulations and thanks for the cogent article calling attention to "that phenomenal revolution in society, the foster home" [Oct. 27]. The Hebrew Orphan Asylum is one of six child-care institutions merged during the past two decades to form our agency...
Still, a new kind of problem child has replaced the vanishing orphan in the U.S.'s conscience. He is the child who is homeless as a result of divorce, illegitimacy, parental abuse or mental illness-orphaned in spirit if not in fact. There are 283,000 of these children. About 96,000-the emotionally disturbed, the mentally retarded, the medically ill-are cared for in special institutions. The rest are the beneficiaries of that phenomenal revolution in society, the foster home...
...Williams, a U.S. medic, gives free treatment to local peasants. They line up at his thatch-roofed "office," exposing their sores of yaws and jungle rot. Sometimes a hobbling peasant arrives with his foot pierced by a Communist shoe-mine-a viciously barbed spike planted in jungle trails. Two orphan sisters of 7 and 10 trudged in. Both had been wounded five days before by steel splinters from a Viet Cong grenade...