COMMERCIAL TV was to be on the air in a year's time, the government announced, prompting great excitement.
Miss Jean Floyd-Share of Culshaw Street, Burnley, and her friend Miss Barbara Irvine, of Childwall, Liverpool, began a hitch-hiking tour of the world.
They were taking £50 each for the journey.
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