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...rolling subservient in movies of the 1920s and '30s (Show Boat, Stand Up and Cheer); of congestive heart failure and pneumonia; in Woodland Hills, Calif. When a 1968 TV documentary accused Stepin Fetchit of popularizing the stereotype of the lazy Negro, Perry brought an unsuccessful $3 million defamation suit. "I had to defy a law that said Negroes were supposed to be inferior," he said. "I was a star--the first Negro movie star--when the black man couldn't get work in the movies except playing shoeshine boys...
Sand's decision, which resulted from a suit filed by Jimmy Carter's Justice Department in late 1980, was politely applauded by the Reagan Administration. The N.A.A.C.P., which became a joint plaintiff in 1981, saw the ruling as a boost for similar cases in Milwaukee and Kansas City. Said N.A.A.C.P. Assistant General Counsel Michael Sussman: "We knew we were going to win all along." So perhaps did Yonkers' political establishment, which expressed no surprise at the ruling. Some of the city's officials acknowledge that segregation exists, but have denied that public planning had anything to do with it. DRUGS...
...painful price for its successful maneuver. A Houston jury decided that Texaco had sabotaged Pennzoil's contract with Getty, and fined Texaco an awesome $10.5 billion. It was the largest sum ever awarded in a corporate court fight, dwarfing the $1.8 billion won by MCI in a 1980 suit against...
...your story on the cigarette makers' attempt to diversify, you mention the spate of product-liability cases [ECONOMY & BUSINESS, Nov. 18]. After having to practice respiratory therapy, I am no friend of the tobacco industry. But the suit against R.J. Reynolds brought by the family of the man who smoked two to three packs a day is going too far. People must take responsibility for their actions. Susan E. Beerman Sandusky, Ohio...
...Bionics are no longer the preserve of the Six Million Dollar Man: soon the elderly or disabled may be able to walk, climb stairs and do housework with the help of a robotic suit, or exoskeleton. The "hybrid assistive limb," or HAL, is the brainchild of Professor Yoshiyuki Sankai of the University of Tsukuba, Japan. Inspired by Isaac Asimov's sci-fi novel I, Robot and Japanese manga comics, Sankai has produced a suit that weighs up to 22 kg and supports its own weight-and the wearer's-with a metal frame. When the wearer moves a major muscle...