Word: suede
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After a white foreman shouted angrily about "goddam niggers" to Manuel Alcorn, a black truck driver, and ordered him fired, Alcorn complained of nausea and insomnia. He got his job back, but sued his employers for $110,000. The California court upheld his right to seek damages from a lower...
Seale, already under indictment for conspiracy to riot and crossing state lines with intent to incite a rot, fought extradition to Connecticut, which is sued an indictment against him on August 19. A California court ordered him extradited, and Governor Ronald Reagan, not surprisingly, turned down his appeal.
> Patrolman Eugene Brukiewa, head of the Baltimore police union, spoke up on a local TV show and lashed his superiors for new department policies that had caused police morale to "hit its lowest ebb." Brukiewa was put on probation for conduct unbecoming to an officer. He sued the city police...
The case is resolved, however, as far as the courts are concerned. Dinis' statement that no further action is planned clears the way for the release of the inquest transcript and Justice Boyle's report. All that stood in the way of the release was resolution of the...
> Del E. Webb Corp., the Phoenix-based construction company, owns the Sahara and the Thunderbird among others; its casinos are thriving, though its stock has dropped from 23⅝ in 1969 to 10¼ last week. Contributing to the decline was a scandal that surfaced last month, when a Webb...