News of the Day No 24

Moscow city. International meeting of communist and workers' parties in the St. George Hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace. Leonid Brezhnev is speaking. There are delegations from Czechoslovakia, Hungary, East Germany, USA, Romania, Mongolia, Poland. Moscow city. Exhibition of monumental art of the USSR. Among the visitors of the exhibition are sculptors A. Kibalnikova and E. Vuchetich. Kazakhstan, Kostanay region. Production processes in the shops of the Sokolovsko-Sarbaisky mining and processing plant. Assembling dump trucks in the shops of the Kremenchug Automobile Plant. A meeting of factory workers on the occasion of the release of the 100,000th dump truck. Spring sowing of grain at the Leninsky state farm in the East Kazakhstan region. By tradition, the oldest inhabitants of the state farm begin sowing by hand. The machine operators go into the field. Italy. View of the Leaning Tower of Pisa. E. Strazdin, a student of the Barnaul Construction Institute, who proposed a project to prevent further tilting of the Leaning Tower of Pisa. Discussion of the project on the defense of the thesis. Hunters catch seals on the ice of Lake Baikal. Transportation of seals intended for Soviet and foreign zoos. Poland, Warsaw. 8th European Men's Artistic Gymnastics Championship. Performers are gymnasts: R. Hristov (Bulgaria), V. Klimenko (USSR), V. Kubica (Poland), M. Voronin (USSR).

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