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Synopsis: Nikita Khrushchev Tours Rumania, President Kennedy Welcomes High Students To White House, Twins Convention Has Everyone Seeing Double, Tension Increases Along The Berlin Wall, Fashion Show Features New Synthetic Cloth, Irish Trained 'Pavot' Wins The Royal Ascot... (read more)
Rumania Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev Tours Rumania Nikita Khrushchev begins a week's tour of Rumania with a parade in Bucharest. Workers, released from their jobs for the occasion, line the streets to see the Russian visitor and their own party boss Gheorghi Gheorghiu Dej pass by.
United States President John F. Kennedy Welcomes High School Students To White House The President receives the ‘most welcome’ students to the White House. They are the graduating class of the Glenn Lake, Michigan, High School, who had given the money they had saved for the trip to help pay a classmate's medical bills.
Holland Twins Convention Has Everyone Seeing Double
Every year under the Sign of Gemini, twins hold a convention in Holland. They come by two and two, from babies with their duplicate dolls to grandmothers, and there's even a double twist to The Twist.
Germany Tension Increases Along The Berlin Wall Tension along the Wall between East and West Berlin increases dangerously as East German soldiers reinforce the barricade through which more and more desperate people are escaping from the Soviet sector into Free West Berlin.
Netherlands International Fashion Show Features New Synthetic Cloth
An international Fashion Showing is held in the little Dutch town of Vinkeveen. By its picturesque canals dresses and sports clothes of a new synthetic cloth are modeled, with a poncha-type wrap for winter especially featured.
England Irish Trained 'Pavot' Wins The Royal Ascot Queen Elizabeth and the cream of English society attend the world’s toniest race: The Royal Ascot. The two-mile Queen’s Vase is won by 'Pavot' an Irish-trained horse that had never won a race before.