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Olivia - The Girl Who Gave Yuri a Kiss
PS: The Girl: Olivia Brayden, pictured last night (12-7-61) after she stole a kiss from Spaceman Yuri on the steps of the Russian Embassy in London Yesterday. (on right) just laughed for joy. Olivia was waiting with a group of friends at the Sovi...
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London Gave Yuri Gagarin a Great Reception
London gave Yuri Gagarin the world's first man to space a great reception today (11-7-1961). There were cheers and applause at London Airport. And more cheers as the twenty-seven-year-old Soviet spaceman drove to the Russian Embassy in London befo...
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Yuri Gagarin at Moscow Film Festival
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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Gagarin and Prime Minister Macmillion
Yuri Gagarin visited Prime Minister Harold Macmillan at Admiralty House on July 13th just before visiting the Air Ministry. Could the P.M. be remarking on Yuri's flight? That is how it appears as Mr. Macmillan points skywards.
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Yuri Gagarin at home with his wife Valentina and their daughter Lena. She was two years old then. Their other daughter Galya was only one month old.
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"He Is 'Trapped' in the Jewel Tower"
London turned out to give Yuri Gagarin another storming welcome today (13-7-1961) – and the enthusiasm of it kept him a prisoner in the Tower of London for ten minutes. Gagarin had to stay in the Jewel Tower until care arrived because the excited ...
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N. S. Khrushchov, Yuri Gagarin and His Wife Valentina
The flower-bedecked car drives Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers N. S. Khrushchov, space pilot Yuri Gagarin and his wife Valentina through the streets of Moscow towards the Red Square. Photo by V. Bliokh
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