THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1949.

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U.S. MARINE MIGHT ON PARADE — Flying over armoured dreadnoughts during a review at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, U.S. Marine F7F Tigercats break formation. These close support aircraft, armed with serial rockets, bombs and machine guns, command as much authority as do the thick-skinned tanks.

DEVIL

LIKE THE When Indy says her hair looks like the devil, it may mean that her coiffure was styled by Guillaume, in Paris. The short curls are brushed into tiny horns at each side of the head, then accentuated by jewelled clips.

LOOKING 'EM OVER-These 62 units of firefighting apparatus are shown being displayed on Reyburn Plaza in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. All were delivered to the city during the past six months at a cost which totalled $065,000. Placards tell the price of each piece of equipment.

FOR TOURISTS-The ancient capital of Carthage, in Tunisia, was founded more than 800 years before Christ and was destroyed by Romans and Arabs. Marshall Plan equipment is being used to restore the city as a tourist attraction.

CROSSED FOR LUCK-Captain Oscar Cristi, of the Chilean Military Team which will soon participate in the National Horse Show in New York, works out in . a practice jump with his mount, Manicero. The horse seems to be keeping his hooves crossed for good luck but the camera angle has provided that illusion.

VISITS ROOSEVELT'S GRAVE Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, of India, accompanies Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt to the grave of Franklin D. Roosevelt at Hyde Park, New York. Nehru placed a wreath there in tribute to the former President.

LEARNS ABOUT BOYS-Although actor Robert Young has four daughters of his own, he knew very little about boys until he made a picture in Hollywood with this tot. Young plays the father of nine-month-

x old James Mitchell in a new film,

GERMAN CHECKPOINT-~The cafe, near Helmstedt, caters to the heavy, illegal refugee trame from Soviet dominated East Germany to the British zone. Che trucks and trailers are lined up awilling clearance to on to Berlin.

MAKING HER DEBUT Sarah Marshall, 16, daughter of stage and screen stars Edna Best and Herbert Marshall, prettles up after making her debut in her mother's stage play in New York, The London-born beginner plays a minor part in which she makes a brief, but silent appearance,

GOING UP-The huge concrete blocks at the bottom of the hill are the foundation for the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation's Hungry Horse Project concrete, dam being built near Columbla Falls, Montana. The dam Is scheduled for completion in 1958, and will be the third highest and fourth largest in the world. It will reach the level of the wooden bridge seen at the top of the photon

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