"Echo" Explodes (Universal Newsreel, Jan 1962)

Description

The original release sheet reads: "ECHO" EXPLODES: BLAST DESTROYS BALLOON IN SPACE "Echo Two," a balloon satellite similar to the one launched in 1960 and still orbiting the earth is launched from Cape Canaveral. As it separates from the Thor rocket an explosion rips the thin skin and a skyborne camera records the spectacular results. TROOPS AIRLIFTED TO AND FROM EUROPE Six thousand American soldiers are flown to Europe in a round-the-clock test of a mass airlift of fighting men. It proves the feasibility of sending fighting men overnight to any spot on the globe. German troops arrive in the U.S. aboard a German military plane to undergo training in the handling of NIKE defensive missiles. BRITONS VACCINATED IN SMALLPOX SCARE By the tens of thousands the British flock to health centers to be innoculated after five deaths from smallpox are reported. The spread of the disease is traced to a carrier from Pakistan. RED SALESMAN IN GHANA The Soviet Union's top salesman of Communist doctrine gets the VIP treatment in Ghana as he arrives with a briefcase full of promises...First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan is trying to sell Red influence to President Nkrumah who refuses to commit himself. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO PRESIDENT FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT is inaugurated for his Second term as President after defeating Alf Landon of Kansas, taking 46 out of 48 States. as President Kennedy does 25 years later, he asks Congress for special powers to combat business recession.

Collection

MCA/Universal Pictures Collection

Series

Motion Picture Releases of the Universal Newsreel Library