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Unveiled: Opening of the New Water Scheme of Mahiyangana

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• 1967-9-23

Picture shows the Prime Minister declaring open the New Water Scheme of Mahiyangana. (Pix by Badulla Corr.)

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Wedding of an Inspector of Police

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• 1964-3-18

Mr. E. T. Abrahams, inspector of Police, and Miss Sundari Balasundaram who were married recently.

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Yuri Among the Orchids

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• 1961-12-11

Major Yuri Gagarin filming the orchids in the Orchid House at the Royal Botanical Gardens, Peradeniya. He exclaimed: "Beautiful", as he entered the Orchid House and later exposed several feet of film, specially on the "Vanda Oscar Kirsch", now in ...

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Yuri Gagarin

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• 1962-1-27

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Yuri Gagarin Is About to Take Off

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• 1961-4-4

(3) Hands — or rather, thumbs! — up. It's a short farewell. But no man had ever gone so far in so short a time before he rejoined his comrades. He is about to take off!

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Yuri Gagarin Just Before the Take-off

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• 1961-4-21

Yuri Gagarin pictured in his space suit just before his take-off

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Yuri Gagarin at Moscow Film Festival

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• 1961-12-7

It was at the recent Moscow Film Festival that Yuri Gagarin, Soviet Union's first Hero of the Cosmos, met the "STARS". There were smiles of achievement on both sides as Gina Lollobrigida clasped hands with Gagarin. Gagarin has met scores of celebr...

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Yuri Gagarin to Move to a New Flat

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• 1961-4-17

Major Yuri Gagarin, relaxing today after four hectic days as World Hero No. a, will shortly be moving with his family into a plush new four-roomed flat in one of the best parts of Moscow, it is understood. Such a flat, in the capital's Kutusovski ...

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