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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Franklin Bunn '57 and Boyd N. Everett Jr. '56 have won the national Inter-collegiate Bridge Tournament with a perfect score--an unusual showing for even the best of tournament champions. They finished with a score of nine pars out of nine possible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bunn, Everett Win Intercollegiate Bridge Title With Perfect Score | 3/27/1956 | See Source »

...drowned. So long as the film remains a documentary, its detail is fascinating, whether it is the slow building of a personality and past life for the dead man or the grisly task of dressing the corpse in a hospital cellar as German bombs rain down. Stephen Boyd, as an Irish agent of the Nazis, gives some plausibility to the fictitious counterespionage sequence that ends the film, but Producer Andre Hakim would have been better advised to stick to the original story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Mar. 26, 1956 | 3/26/1956 | See Source »

...House of Commons last week, Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd announced that the British government had lost patience with Cypriot insurgents on the British-held Mediterranean island of Cyprus. Said tall, tough Lennox-Boyd: "As to the future, the first and most important duty is to restore law and order. For this we have the resolution and the forces, and it will be done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CYPRUS: Exile Comes to the Archbishop | 3/19/1956 | See Source »

Hoping to pull off a coup by personal diplomacy, British Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd flew to Cyprus last week to try to win a settlement from the island's Ethnarch, Archbishop Makarios. The bearded archbishop was plainly in no mood for compromise. "The British," he said, "must exclude any possibility of further retreat by us no matter how tough their stand may appear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CYPRUS: Copper Island | 3/12/1956 | See Source »

...agreement reached in London was the signal for Britain's Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd to introduce a federation bill in the British Parliament before the summer recess. And it set in motion preparations for the 1958 election of the first legislature. Such far-reaching agreement did not go unmarked; the delegates voted unanimously that henceforth the birthday of the new nation, Feb. 23, would be known as Federation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITISH WEST INDIES: Birth of a Nation | 3/5/1956 | See Source »

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