"I am much more relaxed this time and more mature," a smiling and easygoing Vermeil said moments after his team arrived at its Atlanta hotel.

But most Atlanta hotels have shown improvement.

Some 1,600 Delta passengers spent the night in Atlanta hotels.

Alfred G. Battle, who runs an Atlanta hotel that is housing 50 displaced families, said none of them had heard about the meeting.

Avery, in his second season as an offensive assistant for Tampa Bay, was last seen by the team Saturday night at an Atlanta hotel.

To this day it remains the only major downtown Atlanta hotel with a front drive on the famed Peachtree Street.

A German-owned chain, the Penta Hotel Group, bought an existing Atlanta hotel last year and renovated it.

By January 1964, 14 major Atlanta hotels and motels had publicly pledged to accept reservations regardless of race.

It is based on Stevens' experiences at an Atlanta hotel where an actual Shriners convention was being held.

The ruling comes more than three years after the chance discovery by one of the women that the man had been working at the Atlanta hotel where she worked as a waitress.