Fox Movietone News Collection. 1957 - 1963. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 1957 - 1963. Movietone News, Vol. 44, No. 63

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Fox Movietone News Collection. 1957 - 1963. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 1957 - 1963. Movietone News, Vol. 44, No. 63

1961

Part 1, Pres. Kennedy reviews the Berlin Crisis at a press conf. in Wash. Part 2, France parades her military might in Paris during a national holiday. Part 3, bad weather at Cape Canaveral, Fla., cancels the second attempt to launch astronaut V. I. Grissom into space. Part 4, U.S. golfer Arnold Palmer defeats Welshman Dai Rees, at the Britain Open at Birkdale, England. Part 5, bulls rampage through streets and arena of Pamplona, Spain, opening an annual fiesta.

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