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Receiving Nikita Khrushchev in the Kremlin, the government delegation of Indonesia, headed by the Minister of National Security, General Nasution. Present: R. Ya. Malinovsky, V. V. Kuznetsov. Testing a new turbine at the Leningrad Metal Plant. The strike of workers in Belgium, opposing the new bill of the Eiskens government, aimed at reducing wages. Cuba, Havana. Fidel Castro speaks at a rally of workers in the nationalized sugar industry with a call to defend the freedom and independence of Cuba. L. I. Brezhnev presents government awards in the Kremlin: test pilots V. S. Ilyushin and V. F. Kovalev; the writer N.F. Pogodin, the poet N.M. Gribachev. Exchange of old money for new ones at exchange offices in the USSR. Foreign tourists exchange dollars for Soviet rubles. The first conveyor milking parlor in Siberia, built in the Krasnopolyansky state farm of the Omsk region. Golden wedding of the Gorelishvili spouses in the Georgian village of Chailuri. Guests at the festive table congratulate the heroes of the day. New Year trees in the Column Hall of the House of Unions, in the St. George Hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace.

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