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KLM Lockheed Electra Airliner Crash
Rescuers working among the debris of the KLM Lockheed Electra airliner, which crashed into a hill near Cairo Airport recently killing 19 people. The plane was on its way from Rome to Karachi.
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King Gustav Adolf of Sweden & Queen Louise
King Gustav Adolf of Sweden & Queen Louise (...) Lady Mountbatten (left).
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The burnt-out tail section of the Czechoslovakian Ilyushin 18 airliner, which crashed near Casablanca after hitting a high-tension cable last week. The plane which was carrying 64 passengers and a crew of nine, had only one survivor, who was taken...
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Plane Gets Stuck in a Tree in France
When M. Bresse, a pilot from the Caen Aero Club in France went for a flip in the Piper-Club he did not imagine he would stay "up in the cloud" for so long as this. The unlucky pilot was stuck up the tree for some seven hours before the firemen of ...
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Prince Bernhard at Emperor's Palace
Addis Ababa: At the Imperial Palace Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands meets Emperor Haile Selassie and the Empress. The Prince is paying a short visit to Ethiopia.
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Princesses Birgitta, Desiree & Margaretha & Christina
Swedish royalty went north for Easter — Princesses Birgitta, Desiree and Margaretha and Christina (on platform) with their brother Crown Prince Carl Gustaf, as they boarded a train to go to their winter sports cabin in Northern Sweden.
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Russia's Major Yuri Gagarin Posing By the Side of the Ancient Sphinix at Gizeh
Russia's Major Yuri Gagarin, the first man to fly into Space, posing by the side of the ancient Sphinx at Gizeh, near Cairo. He was on an eight-day State visit to the United Arab Republic recently.
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Sweden's Princess Desiree — Now A Graduated Pre-School Teacher
After two years of studies and practical work at the Stockholm Training School for Social Pedagogics, Sweden's Princess Desiree is now a graduated pre-school teacher. During the spring, she has been concentrating on practical training at the schoo...
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The Grand National's most dramatic moments - the Queen Mother's Devon Loch, ahead of the field, collapses (top, left to right) and then struggles to his feet (bottom, left to right) only 50 yards from the post. The crowd were cheering the Royal vi...
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