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...Student Council-sponsored "Operation Booklift" expects to collect "several thousand" books of all kinds for use in Nigeria and Pakistan, according to co-chairman Eugene H. Zagat, Jr. '61 announced yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council 'Booklift' May Reach 2000 | 5/19/1959 | See Source »

...Hogan planned to make his next title defense in 1960 in Lagos. Nigeria, to celebrate the scheduled independence of his homeland. Now he will have to get the title back first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Change of Tune | 3/30/1959 | See Source »

...that his firm is taking a risk, "just as there is a risk anywhere you go." It is a risk the Rockefeller family is prepared to take. The Rockefellers, on their own, are putting $250,000 into several pilot projects in new African nations, have set up offices in Nigeria and Ghana to supervise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFRICA: A Bet on the Future | 3/23/1959 | See Source »

Wednesday Night Fights (ABC, 10 p.m.). Two good mixers: World Featherweight Champion Hogan ("Kid") Bassey of Nigeria risking his title against Ohioan Davey Moore in Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Mar. 23, 1959 | 3/23/1959 | See Source »

...dragged off to jail and additionally charged with the murder of his wife. Last week, like any common criminal, Chief Obodo and four accomplices were hanged in Enugu prison after their appeal from the guilty verdict had been denied by the Privy Council of Eastern Nigeria. At least, that is what the villagers of Abakaliki have been told. None of them are prepared to believe that the majestic, awe-inspiring Chief Obodo is "properly dead" until his body is brought home from Enugu and they can test the evidence of touch and sight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NIGERIA: A Box for Obodo | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

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