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Meeting in London with the colony's Governor Sir Patrick Muir Renison, Britain's Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd agreed to a new plan that would pour about $58,240,000 into social and economic development in the next five years. The specific points covered by the plan included completion of the 130,000-acre Boerasirie irrigation and drainage project, rebuilding the main road along the seacoast from the Surinam border to Georgetown through rich sugar-and rice-growing areas, completion of a 4,000-unit housing scheme, and rural electrification. More than half the cash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITISH GUIANA: Back on the Track | 4/2/1956 | See Source »

...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 »

...situation for a team varied with the hands. In some they could make a par score by playing on the defensive. In others they had to make the bid established for them by the experts. Boyd and Everett won at every opportunity...

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 »

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