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HAITI OPENS EXPOSITION — Visitors pass the "Point, of Liberty" in Port-au-Prince, Halti, during ceremonies at the opening of the Bicentennial Expost- tlon, in which 26 nations are taking part,

BRITAIN SEES END OF WATER SHORTAGE - Looking like a miniature Niagara, millions of gallons. of water cascade over the dam wall at Derwent Reservoir, Derbyshire, after heavy rain. This is the first time the dam and adjoining Reservoir have been full since last summer's drought, with ample supplies for

next summer.

SNOWBOUND. CYCLES An all-night “snowfäll caught students of Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, by surprise as they arose to find some of the 1,484 campus bicycles, buried.

'QUEEN' OF EGYPT- Marie Soury smiles after

her election in Cairo as “Club Queen of Egypt" over scores of entrants from social and sporting clubs.

ANOTHER SPHINX FOUND IN EGYPT Egyptologists touch up a new Sphinx recently uncovered in the long lost Avenue of Sphinxes, between Karnak and

Luxor, in Egypt.

SENATORIAL DUCK HUNT-US, Senitor and Mrs Millard Tydings (centre)· and guests, "Mr and Mrs Ralph Hines discuss their bag after a duck húnt “on” the Tydings estate at Chesapeake Bay, Maryland.

FRENCH-CHIEF - Major Gen. Clement Blane, 52-year-old veteran of both World Wars, has been named by France's Cabinet as Chief of Staff of French land forces

FRENCH PRIZE BABIES-Jean Paul Roume (left), 33 months, held by Jacques Marinelli, cyclis!, and Patricia Claude, 30 months, held by Line Renaud, singer, won Paris's most beautiful baby contest 'over 500 entrants from all over France.

FIRE DEPARTMENT— Tom Showers, Los An- geles County fireman, shows the model, fire apparatus he built since he started eight years ago as a U.S. Army fire-

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COIN DRESS—Patricia Novell displays a black satin evening gown trimmed with highly-polished coins made

by Eugenin Seymour of Menrovia, California, former WAC, for a charity fund. Mrs Seymour spent three months making the dress.

"EVIL"—"Italian-born sculptor Diego: Calcagno- Feraud exhibited this statuette, called "Evil" at his first 'one-man show in London. Born in Naples, Feraud studied in Rome.

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HOSTESS Donna Inez Munoz Marin (right), wife of Puerto Rico's first elected Governor, la hostess to stage and screen star Jose Ferrernative Puerto Rican, and his wife, at the opening of the Caribe Hilton Hotel, in San Juan

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