News of the Day No 13

Meeting at the airfield, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Union of Burma, General Ne Win. USSR Defense Minister R. Ya. Malinovsky greets General Ne Vin. Reception Not Wine in the Kremlin, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR NS Khrushchev. Press conference at the USSR Academy of Sciences on the launch of Soviet spacecraft. Speakers: Academician N. M. Sissakian, Professor V. V. Parin. Senior Researcher Gazenko demonstrates to correspondents the dogs Strelka, Chernushka and Zvezdochka, who have been on space flights (1960-1961). Oil production at the Turkmen oil field Kotur-Tepe. Drilling rigs are working. Tractors are transporting an oil rig. Production of television picture tubes at the Lviv Electric Lamp Plant. A conveyor with picture tubes is moving. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Mali Mamadou Fediala Keita presents his credentials to Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Leonid Brezhnev. Spouses Tatyana and Boris Lienko, students of the First Moscow Medical Institute, are talking (synchronously) about their decision to go to work after graduation from the institute in virgin villages. Researchers at the Tajik Institute of Livestock Breeding, working to improve the sheep breed, select lambs for the experimental flock; among them is the chief animal technician Alekseenko. The artist V. A. Gitsevich-Koretskaya is working on the creation of a "forest sculpture" (figurines made of twigs and roots). Models from Riga demonstrate clothes for work in agriculture, at weaving factories, for the home. Meeting of American singer Paul Robson with students of the Patrice Lumumba Peoples' Friendship University. All-Union iceboat competition on the Latvian lake Aluksne. The Estonian team "Kalev" is the winner of the competition.

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