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...many, the lowly cafeteria is a symbol of soup-line shabbiness. So what happens when it is spruced up with classy decor, white-jacketed waiters and tasty food? In the case of Mobile-based Morrison Incorporated, the resulting high costs hold profits to a thinly sliced 40? a meal. Naturally, the company has to compensate for that with volume. One of the nation's fastest-growing cafeteria chains, with 57 branches in seven Southeastern states (and six more due to open this year), Morrison's serves up 2,000,000 meals a month, has tripled annual sales over...
Those were only the latest clashes in a series that began last fall. In Newark, two Negro girls fought over a cafeteria seat at Barringer High last October, touching off two days of sporadic tray hurling and fights between Negro and white youths. Nearly 3,500 students from Philadelphia high schools cut classes one day in November for a rally at the board of education that turned into a melee, causing 22 injuries and leading to 57 arrests. Before the Christmas vacations, mass street fighting erupted among youths from Trenton's Central High, and mob violence hit Chicago...
...attack was alledgedly provoked by an incident earlier in the night at the Waldorf cafeteria. After leaving the Pi Eta Club, Pieper and Vernaglia entered the cafeteria, where they saw a group of six or eight unidentified men "bothering" two other Harvard students and their dates, one of Pieper's friends said. Pieper and Vernaglia then tried to intervene, and asked the group to leave the couples alone...
After leaving the cafeteria, Pieper and Vernaglia ran down Dunster Street toward Eliot House. They didn't see anyone chasing them, and thought they were safe until a car full of seven people--apparently the same ones they had seen earlier--roared up behind them and hit Pieper, knocking him into a snowbank...
Police officials and relatives of the attack victims have requested witnesses with any information about the incident in the cafeteria or the actual beating to notify the Cambridge Police...