News Highlights Of 1958
News Highlights Of 1958
News Highlights Of 1958. Top news events of the year!
News Highlights Of 1958
News Highlights Of 1958. America draws abreast of the USSR in space research, putting its first satellite, the Explorer, into orbit and sending two rockets some 70,000 miles, the farthest yet attained - in attempts to research the moon. Rocket launches, night and day. The cruise of the Nautilus entered the saga of the sea. The nuclear submarine went, submerged, from Hawaii to Britain under the North Pole itself! Interior sub, men operating equipment. Polar or arctic-looking ice chunks. A new state was admitted and Alaska celebrated its long awaited acceptance in the union with jubilation reminiscent of sourdough days! Headline of Chicago Daily Tribune: Alaska Voted Statehood. Little boy and little girl with pennant that reads, 49th State. Parade scenes, celebration. Big U.S. flag with an extra star stuck onto it. "Vice-president Richard Nixon and Mrs. Nixon toured South America and barely escaped injury as the result of mob violence in an atmosphere feverish with anti-Americanism in Lima and Caracas." Brief clip on Vice President Richard M. Nixon's torrid visit to South America. MS's Mr. & Mrs. Nixon deplaning. Press photographers. LS's of their motorcade, crowds lining streets. MS's fervent anti-American locals attacking the cars. MS's broken glass of car windows and other damage. Limas and Caracas. Man of the year: Charles De Gaulle. DeGaulle enters building. Interior, looks like press conference, De Gaulle at microphones, newsreel cameramen and photographers swarming. DeGaulle riding in open convertible car in parade. Ticker tape flying.
News Highlights Of 1958
News Highlights Of 1958. U.S. triumph on the cultural front of the Cold War: America's exhibits win over visitors at Brussels World's Fair. Various shots of buildings at the fair, including a Soviet building. Russia had the initiative in the global power struggle. Khrushchev's overtures to Egyptian strong-man Gamal Abdel Nasser (handshake) were followed by the formation of the United Arab Republic plus months of turmoil and crisis in the explosive Middle East. Men marching with banners written in Arabic. Iraq's King Faisal was slain during uprising (not shown). Faisal (?) in uniform in front of microphones. Horse-drawn carriage pulls two men, crowds lining streets. Lebanon called for aid, and U.S. Marines arrived to help. Ships at sea. Military vehicles and personnel (men in uniform, including African Americans) on beach, moving supplies, cargo. Small Arab crowd clapping. The Middle East crisis subsided as Red (Communist) China launched a staggering artillery assault on Chiang's off-shore outposts on the Quemoy Islands. Helmeted troops move through trenches. Naval (?) ships at sea. Unloading cargo. Scenes of prosperous West Berlin contrasted with rubble and poverty in Soviet-held East Berlin. Military, troops. One of the world's greatest proponents for peace and freedom - Pope Pius XII - died in 1958. Mourners view Pope's body lying in state. His successor Pope John XXIII, was crowned with all the pomp and ceremony of the church's millennia-old tradition, assuming the papal crown at a time of continuing crisis.