Word: cafeteria
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Even in Mississippi. Similarly, Negroes were admitted to previously all-white hotels and eating places in Savannah, Thomasville and Warner Robins, Ga. In Texas, Dallas' Piccadilly Cafeteria, a motel and lunch counter in Longview, restaurants in Palestine, and Austin, and a Beaumont drive-in were integrated. Thirty-three Memphis restaurants, including one of the city's largest downtown cafeterias, opened their doors to Negroes. Kemmons Wilson, chairman of the Memphis-based Holiday Inns motel chain, noting that he had instructed his motels to obey the new law, said: "The alternative is eventually anarchy, chaos and destruction...
Inevitably, there were some trouble spots, such as Laurel, Miss., and Americus and Albany, Ga. In Baton Rouge, La., a white state employee punched a Negro minister in the jaw as he and two Negro women left the state capitol cafeteria after eating. Fifteen Negroes were arrested in Slidell, La., when they sought service at a restaurant. At a variety-store lunch counter in Bessemer, Ala., a steel town near Birmingham, six Negro youths were beaten by whites wielding 24-in. baseball bats. Near Texarkana, Texas, a white man and three Negroes were wounded when another white man opened fire...
Uchenna C. Nwosu '64 said that he and Femi Okurounmu '63, a graduate student at M.I.T., refused to leave the cafeteria because the manager insisted on serving them on a dirty tray. When the students complained about the tray, the manager, according to Nwosu, told them "You don't get such good things in your home country...
...load and unload all its own cargo without help of dock booms, can "turn around" in port in as few as five or six hours. Efficiency applies at the home office too. Turman rises at 4 a.m., breakfasts with his staff before 7 in the bleak company cafeteria. The early schedule is the only way he knows to keep up with his European competitors, who, he complains, enjoy the advantage of being six hours ahead of him on the clock...
...Haas, 68, a Bronx widow, spent an evening with an elderly woman friend at the Avalon Ballroom, a kind of senior citizens' dance hall on Broadway that forbids liquor and jitterbugging, caters to older people looking for gentle companionship. Later, Mrs. Haas and her friend stopped at a cafeteria for a cup of tea and a bit of cheesecake, then took the subway to The Bronx and separated. Mrs. Haas walked home. Next morning a porter in Mrs. Haas's apartment building saw blood on the lobby floor. He followed a trail of bloody streaks...