Fox Movietone News Collection. 1957 - 1963. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 1957 - 1963. Movietone News, Vol. 45, No. 20

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Fox Movietone News Collection. 1957 - 1963. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 1957 - 1963. Movietone News, Vol. 45, No. 20

1962

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Part 1, shows an aerial panorama of flooded Ger. villages in the wake of storms. Part 2, Navy personnel enter a fallout shelter in a test at Bethesda, Md. Part 3, USIA chief Murrow swears in George Stevens, Jr. as a new aide in Washington, D.C. Part 4, astronaut Glenn speaks on the postponements of his orbital flight, at Cocoa Beach, Fla. Part 5, Miss Darrah Lau of Honolulu is named Miss Chinatown, U.S.A., in San Francisco, Calif. Part 6, Alvin Dark, Jackie Robinson, Don Drysdale, Paul Weiner, and Yogi Berra, are present at the ballplayers golf championship in Miami, Fla. Part 7, Egon Zimmerman wins the giant slalom at the World Skiing Championships at Chamoni. Fr., Aga Khan IV is present.

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