News of the Day No 34

Academician D. V. Skobeltsyn presents a diploma and a gold medal of the laureate of the International Lenin Prize "For Strengthening Peace Between Nations" to the public figure of India Rameshvari Nehru in the Kremlin. Speakers: N. S. Tikhonov, N. V. Popova, E. Cotton (France), R. Nehru (with a response). Arrival in Tokyo AI Mikoyan on the occasion of the opening of the Soviet trade and industrial exhibition; meeting at the airport, visit to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Japan D. Kosaka. AI Mikoyan opens the exhibition. Inspection of the exhibition by visitors. Start-up of the Dnepropetrovsk Tire Plant. Production processes in the shop of the plant. Tires on the conveyor. Meeting of workers of one of the shops of the Ural Heavy Engineering Plant on the occasion of the brigade of communist labor K. Masliya seven-year plan for two years seven months. The foreman, innovator-turner K. Masliy is speaking. Uzbekistan. Participants of the International Irrigators Seminar inspect the irrigation system, which originates from the Farhad hydroelectric power station on the Syrdarya river. A new method of irrigating cotton fields at the Farhad state farm using flexible cotton hoses. The tractor lays a hose, from the holes in which water flows. Seminar participants walk along the field along the hose. French mimic actor Marcel Marceau on tour in Moscow. Performance by M. Marceau in the pantomimes "Climbing the stairs", "Tightrope walker", "Children's balloon". Estonia, Tallinn. USSR championship in water sports on Lake Harku. Competition winners: Maye Kaasik, Ivan Moshak. Stay in Budapest, USSR pilot-cosmonaut Yu. A. Gagarin; Yu. A. Gagarin's reception by Istvan Doby, Chairman of the Hungarian People's Republic Presidium. The people in the city square welcomed Yuri Gagarin.

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