Word: liberians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Married. William Vacanarat Shadrach Tubman Jr., 28, Harvard-bred son of Liberia's President; and Wokie Rosalind Tolbert, 23, pretty, English-educated daughter of Liberian Vice President William Tolbert; at Bensonville, Liberia, in a ceremony performed by (among other clergymen) the father of the bride, who doubles as pastor of the local Zion Praise Baptist Church...
...week's end the Security Council debated the relative merits of a U.S.-British resolution urging both sides to negotiate and a U.A.R.-Liberian resolution additionally urging the speedy withdrawal of all French troops from Tunisia, finally settled on an interim resolution calling for a ceasefire. Both French and Tunisians quickly ordered their forces to comply. The battle had cost the French 13 dead, 35 wounded. The Tunisians lost more than 300, with at least 500 wounded...
...severe tonsillitis. If the case had been more complicated, he would have consulted one of the 50-odd specialists always on call for CIRM (Centre Internazionale Radio-Medico), but he felt competent to handle this one himself. A reference book on the duty desk showed what drugs a Liberian freighter is required to carry. The doctor wrote out a message: Tea and Mineral Water. "Keep the patient in bed with absolute rest. Apply linseed poultices continuously on the swollen jaw. Give intramuscular injection of 500,000 units of penicillin combined with half gram of streptomycin morning and evening. Give only...
...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...