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...yard dash, Princeton has three aces, Crosby Boyd, Jasper Daube, and Hewes Agnew, who should press the varsity's Sandy Dodge and Joel Landau, while Daube in the 220 has run a 22.0, more than .6 seconds faster than Dodge's best time...
Died. Dorothy Sebastian, 50, oldtime (1925-32) cinemactress (Sackcloth and Scarlet, Our Dancing Daughters) and onetime (1930-36) wife of William (Hopalong Cassidy) Boyd, with whom she appeared in His First Command, The Big Gamble; of cancer; in Hollywood...
This time the bonds of old friendship failed to carry the day. On his own initiative, Macmillan overruled Salisbury, and at midweek Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd told the House of Commons: "While Her Majesty's Government cannot regard [Makarios' statement] as the clear appeal for which they asked, nevertheless they consider that in the present circumstances it is no longer necessary to continue the Archbishop's detention." The government, added Lennox-Boyd, would not permit the Archbishop to return to Cyprus itself, nor would it comply with his demand for immediate lifting of the state...
...Lennox-Boyd hustled Harding into an official car, and back to the Colonial Office. Harding's argument: Why take the pressure off now when EOKA is on the run? Once EOKA is crushed, the Cypriots will be easy to deal with. As governor of Cyprus, he was flatly opposed to negotiating with the archbishop under any circumstances; in private conversations he has reportedly referred to Makarios as a cheat, liar and fraud. After two hours of argument, the two men hurried over to 10 Downing Street where Prime Minister Macmillan, just hours before his departure for Bermuda, had hastily...
...Again. As Harding watched grim-faced from the gallery a few yards from the equally grim-faced Greek Chargée d'Affaires Demetrios Nickolairezis, Lennox-Boyd made the announcement to an angry House of Commons. "Another opportunity muffed," cried one Laborite. Insisted Lennox-Boyd: "Clearly the government of Cyprus cannot allow-under the cover of an offer of suspension-the chance of regrouping and rearming of the hard-hit terrorist group." Opposition Leader Hugh Gaitskell declared that the EOKA offer created "a new situation" and demanded: "Is it not the case that only the imprisonment of the archbishop...