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LEFT: Carpenter Sidney Catlin, 66, who has boon for ton campaigning
years "through channeli“ to get his daughter hame from behind the Iron Curtain, recently aban- doned the orthodox methods in favour of pickoting the Czech Em- bassy in London with a. pair of improvised sand- wich boards. His daughter Joyce married a Czech during the war, wont back in 1945, and was trapped when the Iron Curtain came down, "Her hus- band fled to Germany when the Russians asked him to spy', says Mr Catlin. Pictura shows Catlin picketing the white-painted Czech Em- bassy./
ABOVE: London account- ant Ancrum Evans, wqi happy the other day. For no cars were parked out- side the nextdoor houses (Nos, 8 & 9) in Eccleston Square, Westminster, where he lives and works. Not surprisingly, because earlier he had successful- ly brought privata prose- cutions against three car owners who had porked outside the houses for ob- structing his access. They' were fined a total of £7: and recently Mr Evans confirmed that he doesn't intend to give up his vigi- lant observance of his rights. Picture showe Evans-he'd just warned away ono attempting parker, surveying the Empty space outside his houses in the middle of a crowded square.
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LEFT: British fashions for - Biarritz-picture":"shows model Hena Dubois pos- fng in the genuine leopard- akin bikini and coat she'll be wearing at the British fashion gula at Blogits.. Cour and bikini fönsthar
LEFT; Setting out from Poole Harbour, Dorset the 46 boy candeiats from all over Britain who re-
cently attempted a 15-. hour crossing
of the Channel to the Chor- bourg peninsula, escortad commandos by marine
and the Navy mine- sweepor Plovat. They paddled In five-hour shifts, being taken aboard the Plover for their rest periods. From the Nor- mandy beachhead, tho Plover took them to St Malo to start a four-day canoeing and camping trip along France's canolș and rivers.
ABOVE: Prinsesa Margaret driving from Aberdeen railway station to Balmoral the other day to join the Queen on holiday. With her is French-Canadian Lieutenant Joan Lajeunesso, Prince Charles' new French tutor.
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ABOVE:: The rad double- decker London bus which
36 British undergraduates
are driving from Oxford to Moscow sean reaching Borlin and a spot of trouble because most of Berlin's bridges were too
low for the 14ft high bus. A police escort had to thow the driver the only practical routes into the city, Picture shows—near the zonal border, the bas passing the statue of the Berlin, bear which wal- comes refugees from the
East.
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BELOW: A romance that started recently, chalked up an engagement after only two meetings, and neatly clipped away through red tape to a happy ending at a little brick church in Dunstable. The couple married in Bedfordshire are 22-year-old-Portuguese law student Marlo Duarte, and 21-your-old Portuguesa heiress Maria Marquess. Mario, son of a wealthy Portuguese diplomat, won first prize in a radio quiz- an eight-day trip to England. The day after he arrived in London he met Maria when he want to visit friends. It was on-the-spot love match. They had two dates together in London, then that marriage proposal just thą”- other day... Happy? The couple drank a champagne toast to each other and said: "You can say there is; no doubt about it wo'll live happily ever after."
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LEFT: At long last, the Air Ministry has decided that the fly-past over London that traditionally commemorates Battle of Britain Day (in. mid- September) will no longer be headed by the tradi tional Hurricane and Spitfire, lank of the nearly 35,000 aircraft of both types built during the war still in flying cond)- tion. The 14-year-old air- craft are now considered Funsafe, for · Hying" over: populated areas though they may still be made available for aerial dis- plays in open country, Pictures shows the Hurri- cans; (nearest camera). and Spitfire which nor mally head the flypust. photographed at Martles tham Heath RAF station, where they are based.
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