News of the Day No 24

Moscow city. All-Union meeting on urban planning in the Grand Kremlin Palace. Chairman of the State Construction Committee of the USSR VA Kucherenko is speaking. The delegates listen, applaud. The city of Sevastopol. The townspeople are planting flowers in the streets. A rally of Sevastopol residents who adopted an Appeal to the residents of Moscow and other hero cities with a call to turn their cities into centers of exemplary order and high culture. Stay in Moscow of the government economic mission of the Republic of Cuba. Reception at the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR NS Khrushchev; acquaintance with the sights of the Kremlin. Moscow city. Solemn presentation of diplomas of honor to the laureates of the 1960 Lenin Prize in the Sverdlovsk Hall of the Kremlin. Chairman of the Lenin Prize Committee presents awards: poet M. Rylsky, violinist D. Oistrakh, directors S. Bondarchuk and R. Carmen. Journalist L. F. Ilyichev speaks on behalf of the awardees. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Kingdom of Cambodia Kim Tit presents his credentials to Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Leonid Brezhnev. Open pit coal mining in the Korkinsky coal mine of the Chelyabinsk region. The excavator picks up coal with a bucket. The conveyor is moving with coal. The Raketa passenger ship on hydrofoils. Salon. The helmsman sits at the control panel of the ship. Milking machine manufactured by the Pyatigorsk Machine-Building Plant. The tractor pulls the milking machine into the pasture. Three milkmaids milk the cows using the milking machine, serving 100 cows in one hour. Moscow city. 24th traditional service dog breeding exhibition. Trained dogs performing tasks. Chile. Cracks in the ground. Buildings, houses, church destroyed as a result of the earthquake. Flooded houses. The victims are getting out of the plane. Concert of Moldavian masters of arts at the Bolshoi Theater of the USSR in the days of the decade of art and literature of Moldova in Moscow. The choir sings; the dance "Bokenyaska" is performed. Artists present bread and salt to the leaders of the Communist Party and the Soviet government.

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