Climbers missing
The British Embassy in; Bogota, Columbia, has sent; a team to search for two! mountaineers from Britain and Australia who have been missing in the snow capped El Cocuy peaks, in northern Columbia, for more than a month, Mr Colin McLean, a counsellor in the embassy and himself a mountainclimber, is leading the search-and-rescue team.— Bogota, January 4. In short supply
One of the consumer objects in short supply overlooked by Soviet planners appears to have been ordinary’ hair clips: the newspaper. “Izvestia,” reports that a group of men and women who tried to fill the bobby-pin shortage have been imprisoned foi theft and black market operations. It says that the ringleaders stole the pins from a factory in Leningrad, and sold them elsewhere — Moscow, Jan 4.
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33425, 5 January 1974, Page 14
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