Lankadeepa Women's 800 m
The starting moment of the 800 m field bicycle race organized by the Sri Lanka Cycling Federation held at the Colombo Sugathadasa Stadium. The picture shows contestants from Sri Lanka and India.
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Lankadeepa Cycle Race
The "Galle Safari" cycle race organized by the Sri Lanka Cycling Federation began in front of the Times Hall, Colombo Fort.
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Gerhard Hannusch and Friitz Leder
Lengede, West Germany: In the darkness of a flooded iron Mine 2--Ft below the surface two of the three miners trapped since last Thursday in the Mathilde Mine wait for the drill which will bore through to save them. Seen here are Gerhard Hannusch ...
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Aberfan mining village
A policeman, surrounded by an anguished crowd, carrying away a wounded child to safety in Aberfan mining village which was engulfed by thousands of tons of coal pit waste recently. The coal waste moved like an avalanche wiping out an infants' scho...
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Aberfan Disaster Funeral
Aberfan, Wales: This is a general view of the funeral when 80 children and 1 adult were buried here on October 27.
The dead perished in the October 21 avalanche of sludge which overwhelmed the village in general and the school in particular when a...
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Emil Pohlai, Fritz Leder, Gerhard Hanusch, Paul Syska
All smiles in the decompression chamber installed atop their escape shaft are the three miners rescued on November 1st from the air pocket 262 -ft below the surface of the flooded Mathilde iron-ore mine. Right to left: Emil Pohlai (34), Fritz Lede...
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