UN Votes to Send Troops to Cyprus (Universal Newsreel, Mar 1964)

Description

The original release sheet reads: UN VOTES TO SEND TROOPS TO CYPRUS In a rare example of complete accord, the United Nations Security Council votes U Thant the power to form a U N peace keeping force on the Island of Cyprus and to appoint a mediator. Probably as many as 10,000 men will be sent to the Island that has been torn by strife between Greeks and Turks since late last year. PRESIDENT JOHNSON ATTENDS RITES FOR MAYOR WAGNER'S WIFE Dignitaries and the humble pay a last tribute to Mra. Robert Wagner, wife of Mayor Wagner of New York, who is dead after a long illness. The President and Cardinal Spellman lead the mourners at the funeral. PILOT LANDS B-52 AFTER LOSING TAIL A near-tragedy is averted as heroic Test Pilot Charles Fisher nurses along a crippled B 52 to a successful landing after the vertical stabilizer was torn off. The data he had collected in the five hours he kept the plane aloft before landing will prove invaluable in the study of many mysterious plane crashes. SPORTS THE WORLD CHAMPS GET GOIN' The Los Angeles Dodgers begin spring training as they prepare to drive for another World Championship. The men who took the Yankees in four games last fall are being conditioned for the season by an optimistic manager, Walt Alston. EASTER SEALS TWO YOUNG COMICS FLOOR BOB HOPE Both President Johnson and Bob Hope get upstaged by a couple ofyoung comics - and they love it! Donnie and Ronnie Cooper, age 6, are the Easter Seal Twins this year and they open the annual drive for Crippled Kids by doing headstands in the President's office.

Collection

MCA/Universal Pictures Collection

Series

Motion Picture Releases of the Universal Newsreel Library