London Gave Yuri Gagarin a Great Reception
    
          London gave Yuri Gagarin the world's first man to space a great reception today (11-7-1961). There were cheers and applause at London Airport. And more cheers as the twenty-seven-year-old Soviet spaceman drove to the Russian Embassy in London befo...
    
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    "Red Flower Welcome for Their Country Man"
    
          Among the large crowds that thronged the airport yesterday evening to see Major Gagarin, were a number of little Russian boys and girls who offered the cosmonaut red flowers. The little girls wore red ribbons in their hair.
    
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    London Gave Yuri Gagarin a Great Reception
    
          London gave Yuri Gagarin the world's first man to space a great reception today (11-7-1961). There were cheers and applause at London Airport. And more cheers as the twenty-seven-year-old Soviet spaceman drove to the Russian Embassy in London befo...
    
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    Yuri Among the Orchids
    
          Major Yuri Gagarin filming the orchids in the Orchid House at the Royal Botanical Gardens, Peradeniya. He exclaimed: "Beautiful", as he entered the Orchid House and later exposed several feet of film, specially on the "Vanda Oscar Kirsch", now in ...
    
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    Yuri Gagarin Is About to Take Off
    
          (3) Hands — or rather, thumbs! — up. It's a short farewell. But no man had ever gone so far in so short a time before he rejoined his comrades. He is about to take off!
    
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    "He Is 'Trapped' in the Jewel Tower"
    
          London turned out to give Yuri Gagarin another storming welcome today (13-7-1961) – and the enthusiasm of it kept him a prisoner in the Tower of London for ten minutes. Gagarin had to stay in the Jewel Tower until care arrived because the excited ...
    
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    London Gave Yuri Gagarin a Great Reception
    
          London gave Yuri Gagarin the world's first man to space a great reception today (11-7-1961). There were cheers and applause at London Airport. And more cheers as the twenty-seven-year-old Soviet spaceman drove to the Russian Embassy in London befo...
    
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