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Spaceman was All Smiles
Major Gagarin was all smiles when he was taken around by the Minister of Education, Mr. Badiuddin Mahmud, to meet members of the public.
Daily Mirror
Surviving Super Constellation Crash
A miracle Atlantic rescue went last week with a ship-to-shore airlift for injured survivors. They were snatched from a sea-hell when their super constellation airliner ditched in mid-Atlantic.
Seventeen of the 44 survivors aboard the Swiss rescue ...
Daily Mirror
Swiss Air Crash
Picture shows police and experts searching through a field in Duerrenaesch, Switzerland, in an effort to identify wreckage found after the crash of the Rome-bound Swiss Air Caraville jet recently. Eighty people aboard the airliner lost their lives...
United Press International (UK) Ltd.
Tar Barrels
Non-availability of transport facilities from Trincomalee to Seruwawila has not only inconvenienced the public but has hampered Government work, too.
These tar barrels sent from Trincomalee to Seruwawila and needed for some urgent work had to be t...
Daily Mirror
Taxi Disaster
This Taxi cab ran off the road and overturned at Pallemalala (opposite the Pallemalala Viharaya seen in the background), between Hambantota and Tissa, while returning from Kataragama. Three persons including the driver, D. Somadasa were seriously ...
Daily Mirror
Thant Meets Astronauts
Apollo-11 commander Neil Armstrong shakes hands with Secretary-General U. Thant after presenting to him a replica of the plaque left on the Moon. The ceremony took place recently at United Nations Headquarters in New York City.
With Armstrong are ...
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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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