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East-West Parley · Geneva
For the first time, United States and Red China envoys meet face to face in an attempt to ease the Far East tension.
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Leathernecks in Training · Japan
In the shadow of Mount Fujiama, Marines conduct a rapid-fire artillery exercise with field pieces and rockets to keep in fighting trim. / REDS SEE SPEED: SOUTH…
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Sports — Helsinki
Iharos Sandor, Hungarian flash, sets a new world mark for the fifteen-hundred meter run in 3 minutes 40.8 seconds.
East-West Parley (Universal Newsreel, Aug 1955)
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The original release sheet reads: 1. EAST-WEST PARLEY: GENEVA - For the first time, United States and Red China envoys meet face to face in an attempt to ease the Far East tension. U. Alexis Johnson heads the American delegation and Ambassador to Poland Wang Ping-Nan the Reds. Wang, after announcing liberation of 11 American fliers opens the parley on a conciliatory note. 2A/B/C/D. LEATHERNECKS IN TRAINING: JAPAN - In the shadow of Mount Fujiama, Marines conduct a rapid-fire artillery exercise with field pieces and rockets to keep in fighting trim. / REDS SEE SPEED: SOUTH DAKOTA - Visiting Russian farmers get a closeup of high-speed wheat harvesting and then go shopping at the corn palace like any other tourists. / KID ARTISTS: NEW YORK - Five hundred paintings and drawings are exhibited by youngsters from ninety-nine nations under the sponsorship of the United Nations. A high-level talent is exhibited in the international language of art. / FLYING FLIVVER: MILFORD, MI - An ingenious test driver, spending $300 evolves road car capable of fifty mile an hour speeds and spreads its wings to take off into the wild blue yonder on forty. 3A/B. SPORTS — HELSINKI - Iharos Sandor, Hungarian flash, sets a new world mark for the fifteen-hundred meter run in 3 minutes 40.8 seconds. He is paced by a countryman. / GOSHEN, NY - Scott Frost, a real customer and favorite in the Hambletonian classic wins the required two heats to become king of the trotters for the year.
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MCA/Universal Pictures Collection
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Motion Picture Releases of the Universal Newsreel Library
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