News of the Day No 12

The city of Alma-Ata. Meeting of the leaders of agriculture in Kazakhstan. Meeting room, presidium; Nikita Khrushchev is speaking. NS Khrushchev is awarded a medal "For the development of virgin and fallow lands." Construction of the Abakan-Tashkent railway. The machine-track-laying machine is in operation. Workers fix the rails. Fishing for herring by fishermen of the Baltic flotilla. The fish is placed in barrels, boxes. Salting fish. Meeting at the airport of the Minister of Finance of Ceylon Felix Bandaranaike. Reception F. Bandaranaike in the Kremlin A. N. Kosygin. The city of Tselinograd (the old name of the city: Akmolinsk). Old houses; construction of new residential buildings. Workers at a construction site. Moldova. Spring agricultural work in the fields of the Lenin collective farm, Chadyrlungsky district: the tractor delivers fertilizer, sowing sunflower. Collective farmers prune the vines. Television installation for monitoring the open switchgear of the Lenin Volga Hydroelectric Power Plant. Dispatcher on duty at the TV. Moscow city. Exhibition "Japanese Children's Book and Toy". Visitors visiting the exhibits of the exhibition. City of Paris. International athletics competition in the Vincennes Forest for the prize of the newspaper "L'Humanite". Cross-country participants are running. A. Artynyuk on the podium. Performance by the vocal trio "Los Mexicanos" in Moscow; sung by brothers Victor, Juan and Salvador Rocha-Diaz (Mexico).

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