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...exhibitions at once: an International Auto Show of 150 models (130 are foreign makes, and most of them are making their U.S. debuts); the Fifth International Philatelic Exposition, with 575 stamp exhibitors from 69 governments and $5,250,000 worth of rare issues, including the famed century-old British Guiana one penny black stamp; a National Photographic Show, with 170 exhibits worth some $10 million, including a glass-walled tank to demonstrate the latest underwater photography techniques...
CHARLES R. JACOB JR. Georgetown, British Guiana...
...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...
...rural electrification. More than half the cash for the program will be provided by long-term loans from British financiers and the World Bank. Most of the remaining funds will come from the British government, in direct grants and interest-free loans. The rest will come from British Guiana itself...
...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...