Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [MAY 18]

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Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [MAY 18]

1956

Part 1, Indonesian President Soekarno deplanes in Washington, D.C., is greeted by Vice President Nixon and Sec. Dulles, and confers with President Eisenhower at the White House. Part 2, shows a fire in Ottawa, Canada, caused by the crash of a jet plane. Part 3, shows ex-President Truman in Paris, France. Part 4, British troops round up rock-throwing youths in Nicosia, Cyprus. Part 5, planes are catapulted from the aircraft carriers Saratoga and Forrestal in the Brooklyn Navy Yard and off the Virginia coast. Part 6, shows auto racing in Monaco.

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