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Cambridge, too, is plagued by prejudice. It disillusions many of the foreigners attending the schools in the area, among them, James Freeman, a Liberian in his second year at Tufts' Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. "My point is this," he explained, "anybody can write a book on democracy, but the real test is to put the ideal into action. We (Liberians) hear a lot about American democracy before we come here and are profoundly disillusioned when we find that we can't get a room because of our color. The millions of dollars which Americans spend on propaganda...
...took Freeman more than a year to discover northern racial prejudice. Last year, his first in America, Freeman lived in a Tufts dormitory and encountered no prejudice. When he and two fellow Liberians decided to rent an apartment off campus this fall, they soon found a suite of rooms on Massachuetts Avenue. Freeman was shocked, therefore, to encounter discrimination this winter when he sought a room for a Liberian friend. For two days Freeman and friend sought shelter at houses which sported room-for-rent signs. At each they were turned down; at each the landlord explained that the room...
...stares of contempt and superiority, returned to his native Liberia after just one term at B.U. The boy was crushed to discover intolerence in what he had thought to be the most advanced civilization in the world. Frightened that he might commit suicide if the ubiquitous stares continued, the Liberian returned home...
...outsize beds (called "De Gaulles'') for the long-legged likes of U.S. basketball players. Through the streets roamed husky, black-jacketed South Africans, slim Burmese in sandals and red sweat suits, and Russians handing out bronze pins engraved with space Luniks. Long after midnight, officials found a Liberian marathoner, stop watch in hand, patiently plodding mile after mile. "It's quiet now," he explained, "and cool." In their practice sessions, tough Pakistanis played the American schoolgirl sport of field hockey with startling violence, Hungarians struck sparks with their shining sabers, bull-necked Turkish and Iranian wrestlers charged...
...Rangoon last week Burmese customs men proudly reported their "biggest haul since 1952": the discovery of $31,000 in smuggled gold aboard the Dolpheverett, a Liberian-registered freighter operated by California's Everett-Orient Line. In Calcutta the Dolpheverett's sister ship Rutheverett is being confiscated outright by the Indian government. After a week-long search during which they all but dismantled the ship, Indian customs officers uncovered aboard the Rutheverett $700,000 worth of gold stashed away in hidey-holes ranging from the ship's garbage bin to secret compartments...