Word: liberians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
...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...
...venture that helped Detwiler land the new Congo contract was a concession he got in 1953 from the Liberian government to develop the Nimba iron-ore deposits in the rain forests. What happened then is as hazy as a rain forest. Detwiler says he was forced to give up control to Swedish interests but kept some of his stock. Another version is that the Liberian government pressured Detwiler out because he was not producing. Still, the Liberian experience led Detwiler to other African leaders. He met Lumumba's private secretary recently. On July 11 he flew to the Congo...
...which asks $520-and most page rates are much lower. One of the African's favorite pastimes is listening to the radio; a company can sponsor a half-hour show on the Western Nigerian radio for $28, a half-hour show on the Liberian radio for $13.44. Open-air cinemas are also an important advertising medium, where for $11.20 a company can sandwich a three-minute commercial film between movies...