Word: suits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pedigreed Greenville was at that party, and Hodding Carter, by anyone's estimation, was best in the show. Dressed in the dark suit, conservative tie, button-down shirt, and easy smile that every gentile Southern male puts on before breakfast and takes off in bed, Carter floated about, a bit taller than the others, laughing louder, slapping harder, and drinking faster. He could have pinched any skirt in the place (and did pinch a few). He danced tricky dance steps. He harmonized with the calypso band. Never looking, he plucked a bourbon-on-the-rocks from a silver tray...
...suit charges that the Harvard Square branch discriminated against Nwoosa and Okorammu by serving them food on a dirty tray on May 24, 1964. When the Nigerians complained to the manager, he replied that "you don't get such good things in your home country," Nwoosu reported later...
...Nigerians then called the police for assistance. The manager told the six officers who came that he no longer wanted to serve the students, and asked to have them evicted. The two refused to leave and, according to the suit, were then "detained and imprisoned for a long period of time on the false and trumped-up charges of Trespassing and Breach of the Peace...
...Nigerians brought the discrimination suit against the restaurant under the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Nwoosa and Okorammu, in the language of the suit, "suffered anguish of mind and humiliation" and "a great deal of pain...
After a non-suit, failure of the plaintiff to come to court, a case automatically goes to judgment, which means that the plaintiffs are assessed for the small costs incurred by the incompleted trial. This may well be easier said than done in the case of the missing pair, an attorney for Hayes-Bickford commented last night...