Missile Milestone (Universal Newsreel, Jul 1960)

Description

The original release sheet reads: MISSILE MILESTONE: FIRST POLARIS FIRED FROM SUBMERGED U-BOAT The 4 year program to mate the long-range missile and the nuclear submarine reaches a stirring climax with the first firing of a Polaris two-stage rocket from the submerged U.S.S. George Washington, opening a new chapter in the history of warfare. CONGO CRISIS CONTINUES As contingents of United Nations troops pour into violence-torn Congo, Belgian troops stay in key positions, despite Congolese ultimatums and Soviet threats that bring a bristling U.S. response in the raging debate in the Security Council. NEW JAPANESE CABINET Emperor Hirohito convokes the special session of the Diet that chooses the new Premier, Hayato Ikeda. Afterwards, Mr. Ikeda poses with his new cabinet, which includes Japan’s first woman cabinet minister. FOREST FIRES RAGE THROUGH WEST Fanned by hot, dry winds, forest fires rage through 9 western states, bringing wide destruction. Los Angeles County is declared a disaster area as it battles the worst fire outbreak in its history. 15-YEAR-OLD GOLD RECORD STAR 15-year-old Brenda Lee wins the accolade of the record industry, a Gold Record, in token of the one million sales of her song “I’M SORRY,” the country’s number one record hit. FASHION PARADE In Germany, a dazzling glimpse of ladies’ jewelry, antique and modern, with the emphasis on ingenious magnets that make for highly attractive adornment for milady. BULL RUN AT PAMPLONA The famous “folding of the bulls” at Pamplona, as the mighty bulls thunder through the streets of the town and into the arena, amid a throng of wildly excited would-be toreros, who defy death and injury (and get away with it) in a mad melee.

Collection

MCA/Universal Pictures Collection

Series

Motion Picture Releases of the Universal Newsreel Library