Word: suiting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years ago as the defendant in Brown vs. Board of Education, the landmark Supreme Court case that outlawed segregated public schools. Now, less than a month before the silver anniversary of that decision, Topekans have learned that their school board has quietly paid $19,500 to settle a discrimination suit brought by a ninth-grade student, Evelyn Johnson...
Although school-officials believe that the dispute is settled, Johnson's attorney, Fred Phelps, warns that he is "probably going to file a class action suit" seeking damages for all of Topeka's black students as victims of racial discrimination. Says Phelps: "There's not going to be any want of available clients." If such a suit is brought, one thing seems certain. No attempt will be made to keep the outcome secret...
Sputtered an Atlanta TV editorialist: "A lowdown, dirty trick." Said Mayor Maynard Jackson: "This is pouring salt in the wound." Because of budget problems, Atlanta's men in blue have been receiving meager raises. In addition, a suit filed by black officers in 1973 claiming illegal discrimination has caused a hiring freeze, resulting in 220 vacancies on the force. Jackson cabled Houston Mayor James McConn: "Object very strongly...
...city of Leicester, she stepped out of her hotel precisely on schedule at 9 a.m. Dressed in a smart, gold-trimmed dark blue suit, her blond hair perfectly in place, she made her way to Grahame Gardner Ltd., a small local clothing firm. After greeting the proprietors, she climbed the stairs to a second-floor workshop and proceeded to win the seamstresses' hearts-if not their votes-by sitting at one of their machines and sewing away for a minute or two. Television cameras filmed the event for the evening news. By the time Thatcher left 45 minutes later...
Later that day, accompanied by her husband Denis, Thatcher visited a Cadbury chocolate factory, donning a white smock over her elegant suit. She spent several minutes cramming brightly wrapped chocolate eggs into yellow boxes. "How many to the box?" she asked over the roar of the machinery. "Forty-eight," was the answer. "Can I do it?" she asked at once, and promptly sat down to pack two boxes. She lamely tried to stuff chocolates into trays that glided slowly past her on a conveyor belt, but found the job difficult. "It takes concentration, doesn't it?" she said with...