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Cuba In Crisis: Castro Attacks U.S. As Opposition Rises.
Cuba In Crisis: Castro Attacks U.S. As Opposition Rises. A rising tide of opposition confronts Fidel Castro. After anti-revolution leaflets rain on Havana from the air, and terrorist raids wound 45, killing 2, he takes to the air for a 5 hour broadcast, denouncing the United States for harboring his foes, and summoning a rally of one million peasants. Crowds outdoors. Papers blow along streets. Injured man being attended in hospital bed. Massive rally with huge crowds, banners, flag. Castro in TV studio, talking at microphones, and of course gesturing.
News in Brief: Poland, Life On A Powder-keg.
News in Brief: Poland, Life On A Powder-keg. Lublin, Poland, discovers that for 15 years it's been living atop an enormous Nazi landmine - 26 truck-loads of high explosives planted in World War Two but never set off. Bomb crews work round the clock for 3 weeks, under terrific tension, to end the threat of fiery doom. WWII aftermath, post-war danger. Tense-looking men work to find the bombs (using something that looks like a metal detector), carry the unexploded shells away in a gingerly fashion. Pan, row after row of shells, soldier walks by. Wow - dangerous work.
News in Brief: Vienna Aquarium
News in Brief: Vienna Aquarium. On the shores of the Blue Danube, new aquarium brings strange and exotic denizens of the deep to a fascinated Vienna. Ranging from squid and devil-fish to tiny but flamboyant tropical fighters, the new residents are greeted by throngs at the famed Schonbrunn Castle Zoo. Lizards, fish, shellfish. Visitors peer through windows at the exhibit.
Football: Memphis, Ole Miss Routs Arkansas.
Football: Memphis, Ole Miss Routs Arkansas. One of the South's classic gridiron rivalries ends in a rout as a red-hot Mississippi eleven downs Arkansas, 28-0. Good MS of man waving Confederate flag in bleachers - actually, there are a number of shots with spectators in the crowd waving Confederate flags. College football highlights. Touchdowns. Drum from marching band says "Ole Miss Rebels."
Football: Syracuse Blasts West Virginia.
Football: Syracuse Blasts West Virginia. The unbeaten Orange devastates the Mountaineers of West Virginia, with a slashing, variety-filled, powerhouse attack, that runs up forty-four-nothing shutout. The Orange adds luster to an already impressive record. College football highlights. Touchdowns. Crowd clapping. Uniforms look muddy by the end. Ernie Davis is playing for Syracuse.
Cuba in Crisis: Ike Says "No Comment" To Castro's Attack.
Cuba in Crisis: Ike Says "No Comment" To Castro's Attack. A quarter of a million Castro supporters mass to hear the Cuban revolutionary leader denounce the United States in a three hour speech for letting planes flown by his opposition 'bomb' Havana. Huge crowd in streets. Cuban president Osvaldo Dorticos (?) speaks into microphones, then it's Castro's turn (gesturing in his typical style). Crowds carrying lots of banners. At his White House press conference, President Dwight D. Eisenhower declines to comment on Fidel Castro's motives. Journalists rise as Ike enters. Photographers aim their big lenses. Reporters take notes in reporter notebooks. Reporter asks question (hard to hear) and many people laugh. Nat sound of Ike using many words to say "no comment." -- but adds that on the basis of history you would think Cuba would be friend to U.S.
Flying Platform
US Army's new vertical take-off platform. Aircraft with four propellers and turbine; pilot; control panel; craft hovering; spectators, military officers, press, businessmen; mounted recoilless rifle.
News in Brief: Switzerland, Gorilla Baby.
News in Brief: Switzerland, Gorilla Baby. One of the rare births in captivity of a gorilla baby, whose dad isn't very excited, but whose keepers are. Little Goma gets care as good or better than any human infant. Adult gorilla eats. Human woman dressed like nurse tends to little baby gorilla wearing a diaper, feeds her from a bottle.
Sports: Denmark, Gymnastic Championships.
Sports: Denmark, Gymnastic Championships. The gymnastic championships of Europe. Russia's Yuri Titov carries off 5 out of 7 events, despite terrific performances by rivals from east and west. Men compete in events including the vault, rings, parallel bars, also single horizontal bar.
Sports: Madison, Wisconsin Claws Ohio.
Sports: Madison, Wisconsin Claws Ohio. Playing in the rain at Madison, Wisconsin's Badgers score in every possible way, including a safety, to beat the Buckeyes for the first time in 13 years of rivalry, 12-3. College football highlights. Crowd with umbrellas. Blocked punt leads to safety. Touchdown. Field goal. Scoreboard. Muddy uniforms.
Plane Crash: 1 Survives, 26 Die In Blue Ridge Disaster.
Plane Crash: 1 Survives, 26 Die In Blue Ridge Disaster. An intensive search for an airliner missing with 27 aboard ends just as hope is almost abandoned. The missing craft is found on a densely forested ledge in the Blue Ridge Mountains, with only one aboard still alive, the lone survivor trapped in the wreckage in a 36 hour ordeal. Wreckage of airplane in forested area. Rescue workers carry out injured man (survivor) on stretcher, then also dead bodies. Bodies are loaded into station wagon-type car with emergency vehicle light atop it (not sure if this is real or makeshift ambulance). Glitch in tape in the middle of this clip.
News in Brief: Iran, Shah's Birthday
News in Brief: Iran, Shah's Birthday Resplendent birthday ceremonies for the Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, who disappoints rumor by not announcing his wedding. After receiving felicitations in the palace, the Shah is hailed in a spectacular mass torchlight display. Wow. Interiors of ornate building, big chandeliers, Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi and other decked out in splendid uniforms. Nighttime. Fireworks. Nifty display of people walking in formation with torches to light things up. Lavish. Impressive.
News in Brief: Washington, Van Doren Faces Quiz Probers
News in Brief: Washington, Van Doren Faces Quiz Probers Charles Van Doren, who attained fame as a long time winning contestant on a television quiz show, faces the Orrin Harris Senate Committee hearings in the dramatic high point of the investigation of rigged and fixed quiz shows. In a moving apology to the millions whose friendship and respect he won, he retracts his earlier denials of getting help, and admits receiving the questions, and many of the answers (no nat sound). Scandal. Van Doren's wife and father (?) (father, says VO, is poet Mark Van Doren). Charles Van Doren enters, is seated. Crowded room.
News in Brief: New York, 'Sapphire' Thriller
News in Brief: New York, 'Sapphire' Thriller A galaxy of brilliant figures from the world of entertainment are present for the glittering show biz preview (movie premiere) at New York's Sutton Theatre of the new J. Arthur Rank thriller 'Sapphire,' released by Universal-International. Night, ext. Sutton with lighted marquee. Motion picture premiere. Celebrities arriving include Red Buttons and his wife, Hermione Gingold, Christopher Hewitt, Edward Mulhare, former Miss America Yolanda somebody, Jeffrey Lynn (SP?), and others whose names I don't know/can't spell.
Football: New York City, Air Force Ties Army.
Football: New York City, Air Force Ties Army. The inaugural of a new inter-service classic, and one of the year's gridiron thrillers. Trailing 13-6, the Falcons surge back in the final minutes to tie up the game 13-all and narrowly miss the field goal that would win. College football apparently at Yankee stadium. People in uniform on field. Air Force Secretary James Douglas and Chief of Staff General White (?). Bob Anderson in a number of plays. Touchdowns. Fumble. Cheering fans. Muddy uniforms. Fight breaks out on sideline behind end zone. Weird contrast problem briefly in the middle of this clip.
Football: Baton Rouge, L.S.U. Beats Mississippi
Football: Baton Rouge, L.S.U. Beats Mississippi Louisiana State University and Mississippi, both unbeaten and untied in a clash of titans. Ole Miss leads in the final quarter until the Tigers' Billy Cannon explodes from the 11 yard line for a ninety yard run that wins the game for L.S.U., 7-3. College football. High angle crowd cheering. Charlie Powers (?). Field goal. People (hard to see who -- cheerleaders?) run along sideline carrying Confederate flags. Quarterback sacked. Looks like slippery muddy day -- and one player (Billy Cannon?) slips from grasp of several tacklers to score TD.
Hurricane Catastrophe in Mexico
Hurricane Catastrophe in Mexico Hurricane and floods batter central Mexico, carrying havoc from the Pacific coast where numerous ships including an 1,800 ton freighter are swamped to far inland where whole villages are wiped out by earth slides. With the death toll near 1,500 and still mounting, the grim decision is made to abandon the search for bodies, as Mexico concentrates all its resources on relief for the stricken areas. Damaged and swamped ships (large ships). People walk among damaged buildings. Aftermath. Relief efforts, with lots of boxes, cargo, supplies.
Panama Flare-Up: Anti-American Mobs Storm Canal Zone.
Panama Flare-Up: Anti-American Mobs Storm Canal Zone. Panamanian-American relations reach a new low as nationalists mobs storm the Panama Canal zone. Repelled by tear-gas and high-pressure hoses, they turn on U.S. business in Panama itself, and tear down the flag outside the American Embassy. Armed soldiers hold back demonstrators. Various scenes show conflct between police (?) and rioters.
News in Brief: Rome, Pope John Marks Anniversary.
News in Brief: Rome, Pope John Marks Anniversary. Rites of high splendor and solemnity mark the first anniversary of the coronation of Pope John XXIII. Twenty-thousand in St. Peter's Basilica receive an apostolic blessing. Procession with Pope on throne. Altar, cross, and candles.
News in Brief: Chicago, Midget Power Scooter.
News in Brief: Chicago, Midget Power Scooter. The closest yet to vest-pocket transportation is an Illinois student's 12-pound power scooter. With rollerskate wheels and a model airplane motor, it put-puts him to and from the campus at a miserly 100-miles per gallon. Man in business suit assembles motor scooter, rides on it (carrying briefcase), rounds corner past sign for Illinois Institute of Technology. Invention, unusual.
Sports: New York, National Horse Show.
Sports: New York, National Horse Show. The 70th annual national horse show with the traditional display of precision horsemanship by the Royal Canadian Mounties, and breath-taking equestrian competition between Canada and the U.S. Well-dressed upper-class crowd watches riders and horses compete with jumps. Shiny trophy plate is awarded.
Sports: Southern Cal Downs California
Sports: Southern Cal Downs California Unbeaten and untied Southern Cal (University of Southern California) meets the University of California at Berkeley, and the mighty Trojans have to rally in the fourth period to preserve their skein. The underdogs' surprisingly tough defense, plus a recovered fumble that results in a tally gives the Bears a 7-6 lead until USC's final display of power in a pinch. Marching band on field. Cheering crowd. College football. Long touchdown run. Spectators cheer and wave pom pons. Scoreboard: California 7, USC 14.
Back To Work: Supreme Court Ends 116-Day Steel Strike.
Back To Work: Supreme Court Ends 116-Day Steel Strike. Across the nation, steel mills idle since the beginning of the 116 day strike rouse into activity as workers return to the job following the upholding by the Supreme Court of a Taft-Hartley Act injunction. Men arrive for work at factory. Working class, blue collar workers. Interior scenes of steel mill, molten metal, machinery, workers in hard hats, etc. Exteriors of plants as well.
Tanker Blaze: 19 Hour Battle Against Disaster.
Tanker Blaze: 19 Hour Battle Against Disaster. A giant tanker loaded with 135,000 barrels of aviation gas and fuel oil blazes fiercely after a series of midnight blasts. It's only a stone's throw from high octane gasoline storage tanks nearby - in the heart of an industrial and petroleum storage center. Firemen battle for 19 hours to check the flames - whose spread could mean another Texas City-type disaster. Tons of foamite are poured in to smother the blaze. Nighttime scenes of massive fire. Cool silhouettes of firefighters against the blaze. Daytime: Aerial view of ship burning in water, very close to an area with a bunch of gasoline tanks. Fire fighters spray foam and get covered with foam - wow. Variety of views of firefighting.