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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, APRIL 80.

WORLD NEWS IN PICTURES

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CHRISTENING CEREMONY-Margaret Truman smashes a bottle of champagne at New Orleans to christen the towboat Harry S. Truman; named for her father, the President of the United States.

FIVE-CAR CRASH-Five motor cars jam together after a crash on a bridge over the Delaware River in Philadelphia. One of the cars skidded sideways on a patch of Ice and the other four, unable to stop quickly enough, piled into the first one. This photo was made by a member of a camera club group looking for scenic, views.

HIERMIT TAKES TO AIR-Noah John Rondeau, 64, the Adirondack hermit, and Mrs Pat Rideout, former WASP, read a map at the Lake Placid Flying Club, He selected the woman pilot to instruct him in his first flying lessons.

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accused by his former secretary, Cecilia Nelson, a native of Michigan, of using his position Moscow to collect informa- tion for, an American es- plorage system.

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WEDS— Kay BOMBING SURVIVOR Polchikoff, White Russian girl who survived the Hiroshima atom bombing, and Paul Drago, former US. Army private, who met her in Japan, hold hands at their Hollywood wedding.

HEADS PROJECT— Col. Kenneth D. Nichols was named by U.S. Secretary of Defence James Forrestal as head of the Armed Forces Special Weapons Project. He succeeds Lieut-Gen. Leslie Groves, who has retired.

nurse at Chicago's Children's Memorial Hospital, shows two- year-old" Douglas Miller, of Dayton, Ohio, the wood screw he swallowed. Doctors operated to recover it.

SCREWY Florence. Horton, student

FISHING AT 50 BELOW-Indians, working in tem- peratures that dropped to 50 degrees below zero, catch whitelsh through the ice in Manitoba, Canada. During the past winter the fishing industry in this area netted 20,000,000 pounds,

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BLOODY BOGOTA RIOTING Colomblans look over the wrecked and burned city area of Bogota, Colombia-the aftermath of the bloody rioting and looting that followed the death of their liberal party leader.

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