G O a (Universal Newsreel, Dec 1961)

Description

The original release sheet reads: G O A - FALLS: INDIA TAKES OVER TINY TERRITORY Prime Minister Nehru who, six years ago, ruled out "non-peaceful methods" in absorbing the Portuguese colony of GOA into India, sends 30,000 adjacent enclaves of Damao and Diu thus fall to the leader of the "Neutralist" world. POPE JOHN XXIII CALLS FOR ECUMENICAL COUNCIL In an announcement of marked significance, Pope John calls for a Church council in 1962, the first in 93 years. It will consider aspects of Church law and Protestant observers have been invited. "IKE" HAS A DAY OUT WITH GRANDCHILDREN Former President Eisenhower has the time of his life as he takes his four grandchildren to an amusement park to whoop it up....... THE BOW BELLS RING OUT AGAIN The famed bells of St. Mary-Le-Bow ring out once more after being silent for twenty years after Nazi air raids. You have to be born within sound of the bells to be a true Cockney! TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO The WPA was in the process of liquidation and protest marchers wanted the governmental relief agency to stay in business. Sit-down strikes spread from France to auto plants. An air-flivver was demonstrated: $1,500 and 16 miles to the gallon. Amelia Earhart joins in the search for a missing airliner. A rail-road bus that could travel on the highway or on rails was demonstrated.

Collection

MCA/Universal Pictures Collection

Series

Motion Picture Releases of the Universal Newsreel Library