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Rees Takes a Jump on His Own

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  • 1960-9-25

Jockey W. Rees takes a jump on his own - when "DOITYOURSELF" made a sudden stop at the fifth fence - during the Firle Novices' Steeplechase at Plumpton. The horse himself looks on....

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Rev. Ross Hook in His Rectory Garden

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  • 1961-7-4

A Chelsea parson has bluntly turned down on an offer by property men to buy his back garden for £450,000. The Rev. Ross Hook the quiet spoken rector of St. Luke's Chelsea, told them: "There are some thing in life that money can't buy." The freehol...

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Richard Beach Sculpts Major Gagarin

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  • 1961-6-3

A clay head of Major Gagarin — the world's first man-in-space, has been modelled by Sculptor Richard Beach who lives in Wakefield, Yorks. It is being produced for waxworks heads — by Jean Roger of West London. Mr. Beach used photographs and newspa...

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Rudolph Nureyev — the Russian ballet dancer

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  • 1961-6-28

Rudolph Nureyev, the Russian ballet dancer who sought political asylum in Paris, last week, studying the time-table of rehearsals at the Champs of Elysees Theatre. Nureyev made his debut with the International Ballet of the Marquis de Guevas in "T...

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Russia Puts Another Man Into Space and He is Still There

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  • 1961-8-11

The Russians this morning put another man into space - he is Major Gherman Titov - and he is still circling the earth in "Vostok 2". He is holding a "running commentary" of his experiences etc. as he circles around the earth - and his voice is bei...

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Russian Airliner Crash in Copenhagen

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  • 1957-8-24

Twenty-three people, 18 of them passengers, lost their lives when a Russian airliner nose-dived into Copenhagen harbour after hitting the land at Kastrup airport on its journey to Moscow. Our Keystone photo shows the tail of the wrecked aircraft b...

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Russian Airliner Crash in Copenhagen

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  • 1987-8-19

Thwenty-three people lost their lives when a Russian airliner nose-dived into Copenhagen harbour after hitting a power station chimney. The machine was about to land at Kastrup Airport on way from Moscow. Picture shows ambulances and frogmen waiti...

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Russian Spacemen Return to Earth

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  • 1962-8-23

Latest : Spacemen Return to Earth The two Russian spacemen climbed safely out of their spacecraft on Russian soil this morning, completing the most daring journey in all history. Their spaceships landed "precisely in the planned area." Both were "...

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Seventy Nine Die as Crash Planes Fall on City

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  • 1963-2-13

Seventy-nine people lost their lives when a Viscount airliner and a cargo plane crashed in Ankara (Turkey) in mid-air recently. Seventeen people died in the crash, the rest of the victims were hit by flying wreckage. Thirty-six shops and other bui...

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