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b. Use some of the key words above to complete these sentences. 
1. Suddenly seeing the face at the window 
me. 
2. The vaccines were sent overseas by air 
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3. Thousands of 
stood outside the palace after the 
royal wedding.
4. Looking back, he realized it was just a silly childhood 
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5. The criminals were 
by local police.
6. The car landed 
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8 April, 2021
A Welsh man has asked for help to find two 
Irish men who helped him return home from 
Australia in 1965. They packed him up and sent 
him in a crate.
Brian Robson, a 75-year-old from Cardiff, 
is looking for two men he only knew as Paul 
and John.
Robson was a 19-year-old working for Victorian 
Railways when he became homesick. But the 
airfare cost about £700 and he only made £40 
a month.
So he came up with a “stupid” plan, to buy 
a small wooden crate and send himself as 
freight. Robson said the “horrific experience” 
had taken four days, and he had often been 
stored upside down.
Nearly 60 years later, Robson said he wanted 
to get in touch with the men to thank them and 
to buy them a drink.
“I’m 99% sure that they were called Paul and 
John,” he said. “Paul really was 100% against 
it … but John said, ‘Don’t worry about it. I’ll 
persuade him.’ And so, they both helped me.”
Robson bought a box “the size of a mini-fridge” 
and packed it with pillows, a suitcase, a book of 
Beatles songs and two bottles – one for water 
and one for urine. His friends then nailed it shut 
and booked Robson as freight on a Qantas 
flight from Melbourne to London.
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But their plan didn’t work. The flight was full, so 
Robson was put on a PanAm flight instead that 
took him to Los Angeles.
A newspaper report from May, 1965 said 
Robson had labelled himself “a computer”.
In the US, Robson was discovered by startled 
customs officials and then interrogated by 
the FBI.
He told the BBC that a man had “looked 
through a hole in the crate and we were 
suddenly eye to eye”.
“He jumped back a mile and said, ‘There’s a 
body in there.’”
After questioning, he was cleared and was 
allowed to fly to London on a normal passenger 
flight. There he could return to his life in the UK.
Robson had to “push his way past well-wishers” 
who greeted him at LA airport. He said, too, 
that he had still been “stiff and limping” when 
he flew to London.
Robson said he had written to the men to thank 
them, but they had never replied.
“We got on famously,” he said. “They used to 
come to my bedsit, or I would go to see them, 
almost on a daily basis.”
But he admitted to the BBC that the crate 
escapade had been “stupidity”.
“If my kids tried it, I would kill them. But it was a 
different time.”
© Guardian News and Media 2021 
First published in The Guardian, 08/04/2021
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