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Helen Gordon, 19, the Hamilton swimmer, won an Olympic bronze medal for Britain by finishing third in the 200 m. breast-stroke final at Helsinki yesterday.

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" Every time they stick their Fechteler heads out they get hurt." The main truce talks will be resumed on August 3, and the W casters kept up their HILE Communist broad- subject was kept " alive " yesterday by a long meeting of staff officers from both sides, says attacks on the

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