Cycle
Police are now checking push cycles licenses and numbers. This check serves a double purpose —to bring to book those persons who have unlicensed cycles and help trace stolen cycles. This picture was taken at the Eye Hospital junction, Colombo.
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Bicycles
Some of the several hundred bicycles abandoned at the Post and Telecommunication Stores due to the lack of spare parts.
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The Amazing Mr. Earnie Old
Ernie Old, of Melbourne Australia the "iron man" of cycling, took up endurance-riding seriously after he turned 70. Since then he has pedaled 60,000 miles over all the highways and back roads of the Australian continent. He has crossed the contine...
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Mala De Silva
Mala De Silva a 15-year old student of St. Thomas College, Kotte has her medal pinned on by Mrs Faulwetter, wife of the Ambassador of the German Democratic Republic.
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Vajont Dam Crashes; 6 Villages wiped out and 4000 dead
Survivors embraced each other recently on the ground where earlier a 300-ft. high tidal wave gushed from the Vajont Dam and into the River Piave Valley, wiping out half a dozen villages including Longarone and killing more than 4000 people. So far...
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Mother And Child Dead
A 25 year old mother carrying a 5 year old child was knocked down by a lorry yesterday afternoon at the Galle Road 5th lane Junction. The Child died on the spot, the mother in hospital. The alleged driver of the Lorry, a man named K.S Perera is sa...
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Lorry went off the Road
The Lorry transporting goods from Chilaw to Puttalam ran off the road and came to rest on its side near the 50th mile post. though the lorry was badly damaged no one was hurt.
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