Word: chieftains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eyes grim, Field Marshal Sir John Harding flew into London last week with the air of a soldier preparing to straighten out some muddled civilian thinking. For days, London had been bustling hopefully over the sudden offer of EOKA's chieftain Colonel George Grivas to "suspend" operations if Britain would free and negotiate with the exiled Archbishop Makarios. Macmillan's Cabinet had met in special session; there was talk of bringing the archbishop to some neutral city, perhaps Paris. The government announced it would make a statement on Cyprus and asked the Greek chargeé d'affaires...
Hail to the Chieftain. About the only buildings in sight that could qualify as architecture were some modern boxy structures put up by Europeans. But they were Mediterranean in style, not equatorial, and were made of concrete, which soaks up the sun's blasts all day and reradiates them all night. In addition, air conditioning could not be trusted, as Accra's sparse electric power often fails...
...this black picture Weese found a spot of light: a picture postcard on sale at his hotel. It showed a provincial chieftain's long adobe hut, with evenly-spaced, pointed buttresses made of mud that speared high above the slanted roof. Weese tucked it away for future reference. Then he went hunting for mahogany, which turned out to be so plentiful in Accra that it is used for Coca-Cola crates. Using that primitive tool of building research, the knife, he personally verified two facts: 1) termites feast on mahogany (the reason builders had stopped using...
Biggest and most influential political movement in Black Africa is the Rassemblement Démocratique Africain, led by stocky, black-skinned Félix Houphouet-Boigny (TIME, Feb. 13, 1956), an Ivory Coast chieftain who was once ready to fight for independence, but now calls for "self-government within the French Union." A year ago, when Socialist Guy Mollet was named Premier of France, 51-year-old Félix Houphouet-Boigny became the first West African ever to sit in a French Cabinet. Ever since, Houphouet-Boigny and Mollet's Minister of France Overseas, 46-year-old Gaston...
...Addi ou Bihi had been fired from the governership and that "anyone who continues to obey him will be considered a traitor to Islam." That did it. Two battalions of the royal Moroccan army, plowing through 150 miles of snow-covered mountain roads, found the old hawk-nosed Berber chieftain camped in the cedar forest with only 200 warriors still standing beside him. "Présentez armes!" cried Addi. The ..warriors snapped to attention, then let their rifles fall to the ground, a symbol of surrender. The ceremony was followed by an ample lunch, attended by Addi...