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"Epigraff" Ridden by Jockey Vladimir Prakhov
Moscow: Training in snow-covered fields near here is one of the Russian hopes for the Grand National "Epigraff" ridden by jockey Vladimir Prakhov. The horse, with two others, will soon exchange the snow of Moscow for the green fields of Aintree to...
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"Griffin" Ridden by Jockey Ivan Abdeyev
It's heaving flanks covered with a fine layer of snow, a stallion gallops through the white fields of outer Moscow in training for England's biggest race, the "Grand National". This horse —"Griffin"— is one of three steeplechasers with which the R...
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"Russia's Four Spacemen Together"
Moscow: Pictured here are the Soviet Union's four cosmonauts seen preparing to make their next parachute jump when they were in training. Left to right are: Major Andrian Nikolayev, who was blasted into space in Vostok 3 on Aug. 11th; Lieut. Col. ...
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"They are Back....Looking Just Great"
They are Back....Looking Just Great Princeton: The Apollo-10 astronauts' (from left) Commander John Young, Colonel Thomas P. Stafford and Commander Eugene Cernan stand in front of their command module on the USS Princeton hangar deck after meeting...
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88 Britons Die in British Holiday Plane Crash
Perpignan, France: The tail section of the crashed British DC-4 airliner some 200 metres from the point of impact following last night's crush into a mountain near here. All 88 persons aboard the aircraft were killed. All were British. The passeng...
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88 Britons Die in Holiday Plane Crash
Perpignan, France: Wreckage of the British DC-4 airliner lies on the mountainside after crashing into a mountain near Perpignan Airport lat last night. 88 Britons aboard the airliner were killed. There were no survivors. The passengers were on the...
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A Spacecraft Check-Out by Apollo 12 Astronauts
Washington: Apollo 12 astronauts (from left) Charles Conrad Jr., Commander; Richard Gordon, Jr., Command Module Pilot; and Alan Bean, Lunar Module Pilot, during a spacecraft check-out at North American Rockwell Space Division in Downey, California...
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Adtronauts Relaxing & Talking After A Practice
The Gemini-11 astronauts relaxing and talking after a practice session on September 3rd., in a flight simulator for their 3-day space mission which ended yesterday. Left to right are William Anders, backup crew: Gemini-11 pilot Richard Gordon; Gem...
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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia officially opens the Sixth Extraordinary Session of the Council of Ministers of the Organisation of African Unity in Addis Ababa, December 3rd. The session has been called to find a solutio...
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Air India Boeing Hits Mountain
Mount Blanc, Switzerland: This is an aerial view of the wreckage of the London-bound Boeing 707 Air India plane that crashed on 15,782-ft. Mount Blanc with 117 people on board early this morning. There were no survivors. All that is left of the B...
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