Word: suited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...suit charges that the management of the Harvard Square cafeteria discriminated against the two by refusing to serve them food on a clean tray. "As a result" of the alleged discrimination, the suit declares, the students were "detained and imprisoned for a long period of time on the false and trumped-up charges of Trespassing and Breach of the Peace...
...suit charges that the management caused the two students to be falsely arrested and imprisoned. Each, it says, "suffered anguish of mind and humiliation" and "a great deal of pain...
...Stigma. The suit was filed by the father of a mental patient in Manhattan State Hospital on Welfare Island, claiming that the hospital was negligent in not preventing his daughter's rape by another inmate. That negligence, he charged, not only caused his daughter suffering, but a pregnancy that brought forth an infant deprived of "property rights ... a normal childhood and home life . . . proper parental care, support and rearing." For his daughter's suffering, he asked $50,000 in damages, for his granddaughter-now two years...
...right to recover damages for his daughter if he could prove negligence. But it demanded dismissal of the infant's case without a trial. Never before had such a case been successfully pleaded, the state pointed out. In 1963 the Illinois Appellate Court dismissed a similar suit (Zepeda v. Zepeda) on the ground that recognition of a bastard's right to collect damages would mean creation of a new tort. If that happened, ruled the Illinois court, "one might seek damages for being born of a certain color, another because of race, one for being born with...
...these drivers, who pass hundreds of gas stations on their travels, the oil companies are pumping more money into advertising that stresses the individuality and merit of their product. Nearly every brand now touts an additive-TCP, Petrox, Tri-tane, Boron-and a variety of octanes to suit different cars. Sunoco, for example, offers eight different octanes for practically every make and type of car. While the additives do improve auto performance and reduce maintenance problems, Elaine Yarring-ton, American Oil's marketing development manager, admits: "They do not ultimately result in any significant difference between the brands...