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Chief Obodo's dominion in the district of Abakaliki was as near to absolute as that of a padrone in a Sicilian village. The distant government in the capital city of Lagos hardly interfered. Chief Obodo had his own courts, collected goats and cows from the villagers for tribute, had his own murder squad to enforce his orders. He boasted: "After God comes Chief Obodo." When a contractor who had already begun negotiations discovered that Obodo was interested in the same job, he hurriedly withdrew, sent goats and libations to the chief as peace offerings. Obodo's power...
...Among them: Dominion Explorers Ltd., Round Valley Oil Co. Ltd., W. R. Newman (Joseph H. Hirshhorn interests), Texaco Exploration Co., California Standard Co., Talent Oil Co., David Rosen (Sun Oil Co.), Sky Chief Explorations, George Radisics, Charter...
...slowly that the whites will hardly notice -has satisfied no one. If the Dr. Bandas wanted an end to the Central African federation, so apparently did Southern Rhodesia's whites. In the last territorial election they gave a majority of their votes to the anti-Welensky Dominion Party, which wants to cut the territory loose from its predominantly black partners and turn it into a smaller version of the Union of South Africa...
...Whose Old Dominion Foundation last spring gave Yale $15 million (TIME, June...
...Greek Passion, a novel of spiritual ideas and earthy instances (TIME, Jan. 11, 1954), in which Nikos Kazantzakis retold the story of Christ's Passion as a modern occasion. The scene is set in a Greek village that has grown rich and careful under the tolerant Turkish dominion. As the story begins, everybody in town crowds into the tiny church to hear the priest appoint the leading parts in a Passion play,* to be presented on the following Easter. The choices are almost too shrewd. Mary Magdalen is the village whore. Judas is a well-known hell raiser...