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Fever Hospital at Angoda

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  • 1962-7-7

The Inquiry Office at the entrance to the Fever Hospital at Angoda remains closed. As a result visitors who wish to obtain information about patients are inconvenienced. The office is about 1/8 of a mile from the hospital and no one is allowed pas...

Daily Mirror

Gagarin Watches Elephants

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  • 1962-2-1

Right: Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was without a doubt our most popular visitor. But the man who made a brave fight alone into the space, frankly had his qualms about an elephant ride and gracefully declined! Hence that extra-special smile and tip for ...

Daily Mirror

German Military Championship of 1963

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  • 1963-8-14

An Equestrian Event by the German Champion Horst Karsten, the 25-year old farmer from Delmenhorst (Federal Republic of Germany), won the German Military Championship of 1963 in excellent form on his horse "Condora" (photo). Horst Karsten was the o...

Daily Mirror

Gherman Titov and His Daughter

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  • 1962-4-29

Now lookee here, you cannot take off just yet. Wait a little longer till your limbs are stronger. And then you Tanyusha can join cosmonaut father Gherman Titov in his space flights. Titov, it will be recalled, was the second Russian man into space...

Daily Mirror

Go-Kart Kids

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  • 1962-8-21

When a director of a British precision engineering company was asked by his nine-year-old son to make him a pedal car, he decided to design and build a go-kart which would not only stand up to hard wear but would also incorporate special safety fe...

Central Office of Information, London

Grand National Outsider "April Queen"

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  • 1967-2-13

She is bottom weight in the Grand National and the bookmakers don't even bother to quote her price. But down on Burcott Farm, Wells, Somerset, ten-year-old April Queen is the apple of trainer Herbert Payne's eye. Aintree fences hold no fears for "...

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His Holiness Ith Sugai Kapiora in Ceylon

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  • 1969-8-29

His Holiness Ith Sugai Kapiora, Chief Sangha Nayake of Japan arrived in the island by BOAC yesterday for the inauguration ceremonies of the new Agra Srawaka Maha Vihare at the Maha Bodhi Society Headquarters, Maligakanda, Colombo on September 3rd....

R. B. M. Sumanadasa

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