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Last year, the Jeffs easily whitewashed the Crimson 3-0, simply by surrounding Chris Ohiri and ignoring everyone else. Even Harvard's Nigerian ace was unequal to the three Jeff defensemen that were always...
...Awolowo and Enahoro, the opposition Action Group is virtually decapitated. But the party still enjoys the loyal backing of Western Nigeria's predominant, advanced Yoruba tribe. The clannish Yorubas will almost certainly reorganize to challenge the North and East once more. At week's end many a Nigerian was wondering how long his country's delicate balance of regional rivalries, which has been the key to Africa's most admired democracy, could last...
...still rail at the Peace Corpsmen as "agents of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency," the government itself has urgently requested that the 113-man Peace Corps contingent be doubled. In Nigeria, where poor Margery Michelmore caused all that commotion, the present group of 297 teachers is being increased, at Nigerian request, to more than 600. Says a top official of the Nigerian Ministry of Education: "There is not one of the various foreign aid schemes working in this country that can beat the Peace Corps...
Ohiri's performance will certainly rate as one of the top marks of the season. After easily moving ahead of the field in the trials on Friday with a leap of 48 ft. 8 in., the Nigerian star returned on Saturday to pass the celebrated 50 foot line with a ump of 50 ft. 1 in. Ohiri's leap would have easily qualified him for the 1960 United States Olympic trials; as it was, the jump shattered the old IC4A record set by Winston Cooper...
...Awori's absence, Nigerian star Chris Ohiri swept both the broad jump and the hop-step-and-jump, with leaps of 23 ft., 1/4 in, and 47 ft., 2 in. Distance star Eddle Meehan also won twice, copping the mile with a time of 4:15.4 and the two mile...