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...primary night, however, the old Kennedy vigor returned. His suite at the Ambassador Hotel filled with well-wishers, and as the results turned his way, campaign workers began "laughing and dancing and hugging one another," recalled his aide, former pro-football player Roosevelt Grier. Around midnight Kennedy went downstairs and delivered a rousing speech to 1,800 supporters in the ballroom. He then exited through the hotel's pantry, where at 12:16 a.m., a slight, dark-haired Palestinian named Sirhan Sirhan pulled out a .22 cal. revolver, fired eight shots and fatally wounded the candidate. For a stricken America...
...amendment adds a new twist to sex-discrimination suits of this type. Grier said. The allegation of discrimination in services "has never been used against a club before, to my knowledge," she said...
...services on the basis of sex." Her amendment charges that the club violates a second Massachusetts statute which prohibits organizations that provide credit and services from discriminating on the basis of gender. In the past, the law has been applied primarily to banks and insurance agencies, said Leslie B. Grier, a staff attorney for MCAD...
Martire will have her work cut out for her when she plays Vilmarie Castellvi in a consolation match. Castellvi, the No. 2 seed in the tournament and the nation’s top-ranked player, was upset in the first round by Northwestern’s Christine Grier, ranked No. 90 in the nation...
When Halle Berry and Denzel Washington won Oscars in this year's much discussed Black Hollywood moment, they paid their respects to Dorothy Dandridge and Sidney Poitier, not to Pam Grier and Richard Roundtree. In the remembrances of African-American cinema past that followed, there wasn't much tribute to Foxy Brown, Superfly or Hell Up in Harlem. Blaxploitation--the genre of small-budget, big-action and bigger-Afro movies that flourished in the early to mid-'70s--has been something of an embarrassment to Hollywood and the black intelligentsia alike. (The term black exploitation was popularized by mainline African...