News of the Day No 18

Return from Poland of the government delegation of the USSR, headed by K. E. Voroshilov: Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR K. E. Voroshilov speaks at a meeting of workers in Moscow at the Palace of Sports (synchronously). First Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Nikita Khrushchev and other officials at the Vnukovo airport are meeting members of the government delegation of the United Arab Republic, headed by President of the Republic Gamal Abdel Nasser. A rally dedicated to the completion of the construction of a new line of the Moscow metro: Nikita Khrushchev speaks at a rally at the VSKhV metro station. Academician NS Shatsky, awarded the Lenin Prize for compiling a tectonic map of the USSR, talks about his work. Academician D. V. Skobeltsin presents the Gold Medal and the Diploma of the laureate of the International Lenin Prize "For Strengthening Peace Among Nations" to the French writer Louis Aragon. Sailors are repairing an icebreaker in Tiksi Bay after the end of Arctic navigation. The miners are conducting blasting operations to divert the Kolonga River in the Urals into a new channel, in order to prepare a new territory for the extraction of iron ore. Moments of the basketball game between the women's teams of the USSR and the USA. Rally and demonstration of the residents of London against the testing of thermonuclear weapons. A meeting of residents of West Berlin against the test of thermonuclear weapons. Nationals of the DPRK bid farewell to the soldiers of the Chinese army leaving for their homeland after the end of the military conflict between the DPRK (North Korea) and the Republic of Korea (South Korea).

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