News of the Day No 46

Leonid Brezhnev takes in the Kremlin, US Treasury Secretary M. Blumenthal and US Commerce Secretary H. Kreps. Commissioning of the new sixth blast furnace of the Novolipetsk Metallurgical Plant. N. Kravchenko's team conducts the first pig iron smelting at a new blast furnace. Economy of the state farm "Glorious" of the Crimean region; a herd of sheep, a livestock farm, a machine-tractor station; spraying fertilizers onto fields from an airplane. State farm director A. G. Gavrilov talks with a worker on the farm. Odessa port chemical plant for the processing of liquid ammonia, in the construction of which one of the American firms took part. Loading tankers with ammonia. Moscow city. Session of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Speakers: Academicians A. P. Aleksandrov, Yu. A. Ovchinnikov, Minister of Agriculture of the USSR V. K. Mesyats. International exhibitions in Moscow: "Spain-78" and "Avtoremont-78". Visitors visiting the exhibits. International figure skating tournament at the Moscow Palace of Sports for the prizes of the Nouvelle de Moscou newspaper. Skaters performers: K. Weissenberg (GDR), I. Moiseeva and A. Minenkov, M. Pestova and S. Leonovich, K. Kokora, K. Long (Great Britain).

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