Word: guianas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first and only Premier, Communist Cheddi Jagan, British Guiana could now be far along the road to a stable economy and peaceful self-government. As far back as 1945, Britain earmarked $10 million for the country's long-term development. But in early 1954, when it came time to draw up new requests for aid from Britain, the colony's first try at self-government had blown up in the ouster of Jagan. In the political confusion left behind by the Commonwealth's first Communist Premier, no one ever got around to applying for Guiana...
...painting beforehand with lights. The result was worth the effort: Italian art experts said that Kessel's results "succeeded for the first time in reproducing photographically Tintoretto's original colors as the artist himself must have seen them." ¶Guiana, a LIFE team, including Photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt, loaded porters with ten tons of equipment including telephone linemen's climbing spikes, seven cameras, and nearly a mile of Manila rope, built a 120-ft. tree house in the jungle to get above the trees and came back with...
...Venezuela's diamond-rich Guiana, no prospector was more given to the feverish, carousing miner's life than Agustín Martínez. For months he would pan the sandy river bottoms; finding a few diamonds, he would load his canoe with rum and float downriver, happily strumming the cuatro, his four-stringed guitar. Then some missionaries showed Agustín the error of his ways. "I put the cuatro and the rum in a sack and threw them into the Caroni River," he reported...
Undoubtedly, the most memorable period of Eze's life came during a single week of Christmas vacation in 1950. As a guest of the British government in British Guiana and the League of Colored Peoples there, he traveled to the South American colony...
Over half the colony's people are of African descent and have preserved their feelings of cultural loyalty to the homeland from which their ancestors came as slaves. As the first African of noble birth to visit British Guiana in more than 200 years, Eze seemed to personify the new vitality and youth of Africa...