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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
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.
Tamara Titova and Nina Krushcheva
Wife of Russia's 2nd spaceman, Mrs. Titova with Mrs. Krushcheva.
The Times Of Ceylon Press
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
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
Technician Checks Astronaut Glenn's Outer Garment
A technician carefully checks Glenn's outer garments as the astronaut completes his thermal under garment wardrobe before his historic space flight.
Daily Mirror
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 ...
Daily Mirror
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...
Daily Mirror
The Apollo-8 Astronauts to Fly Around The Moon
The United States will launch three Astronauts to fly around the moon on December 21, 1968, from Cape Kennedy, Florida. The Apollo-8 Astronauts Frank Borman, James A. Lovell, Jr., and William A. Anders, if all goes according to schedule, will have...
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Apollo-8 commander Frank Borman poses with his wife Susan and sons Frederick (left) and Edwin in their home near the Manned Spacecraft Centre in Texas.—(IPS)
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