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Dinner by the PM at Temple Trees for the Astronauts

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• 1970-3-15

The Apollo 12 astronauts in conversation with the Prime Minister Dudley Senanayake at the state dinner to them on Friday at "Temple Trees".

The Times of Ceylon Press

Gemini-9 to be Launched on May 17

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Cape Kennedy, Florida — Gemini-9 astronauts Thomas Stafford and Eugene Cernan are set to make America's seventh two-man space flight next week — a three-day earth orbiting mission that is to feature an early linkup with an Agena target satellite a...

The Times of Ceylon Press

A Raft with the M.G. Ariyapala's Dead Body

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About noon on Wednesday, M.G. Ariyapala, a 20-year-old boy working on his father's padda-boat in the Beira Lake, and his friend Piyadasa, went to the Galle Buck, Fort to pick oysters. While standing on a rock, Ariyapala was swept away by a large ...

The Times of Ceylon Press

'Mildrid' Caught a Fire

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• 1954-8-13

The 2.055-ton Norwegian steamer, Mildrid, blazing furiously off Harwich—over 20 hours after she caught fire and after an all-day "tug-o-war" by British and French ships to claim her as a prize. The battle to salvage the Mildrid began almost as soo...

The Times of Ceylon Press

The Icelandic Farmer Magnus with a Lifebelt

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• 1959-11-10

In late January the Danish Greenland ship "HANS HEDTOFT" sank off Greenland with about 100 persons aboard. No trace of the vessel was found and now the Icelandic farmer Magnus Haflidason was walking along the beach near his farm when he found a li...

The Times of Ceylon Press