CAMERA ON THE WORLD - WORLD EVENTS 1959-1963

[Music] the ship is the Shirley likes her destination Cuba and you are aboard sailing past historic Maro Castle entering Havana Harbor for a close-up look at Cuba today a Russian tanker riding at anchor welcomes the visitor to the Communist Island at Ducks side a Castro Soldier stands guard as the ship unloads 7,000 tons of food and medical supplies the cargo is part of the $53 million Ransom paid to Cuba for the release of prisoners captured in the abortive Bay of Pigs [Music] invasion evidence of communist ideas and infil ation is everywhere in Russian tractors farm equipment and other supplies piled up on the piers in poster after poster glorifying the bearded dictator and in the Soviet trucks with their red stars that ride through a once peaceful City now turned into an armed Camp Cuba and her people especially her young people lead a disciplined and regimented life students must live where the government tells them to live dress the way the the government tells them to dress learn what the government wants them to learn Russian is the favored subject in foreign language classes and all history courses follow the government line Fidel Castro realizes the importance of training children in the Communist way touring the island Fortress screen News Digest cameramen are allowed to photograph only certain areas but the films record significant sits Russian ships at peer after peer sprawling factories standing idle and Coastal roads with Telltale patches where landmines once were planted sugar is still King of the Cuban economy but it's an economy that is sick and suffering from an embargo by America and free world [Music] countries there is a food shortage that grows worse every day stores are stocked with canned goods from Russia red China and other satellite countries but there is not enough and what there is must be rational food may be scarce but propaganda is not the newest russian-made movies in cinama are shown in Havana theaters Cuba's transformation into a communist satellite is complete the power of the police state can be seen every night on any Street Havana is no longer the Paris of the new world [Music] how much is it worth to escape from Castro's Island Fortress 12200 Cubans exchange every worldly possession they have for the opportunity to sail for America aboard the Shirley lights the exit permit that allows them to board the ship is bought at a high price but it's a price gladly paid there are 14 stretcher cases and seven paralytic victims carried aboard Red Cross cuts and blankets provide overnight bedding in the hold of the 500t freighter though crowded together they do not complain leaving Cuba says one Refugee is like coming out of a dungeon into free air to young and old the bitter memories of the past soon will be erased by the bright promise of the future [Music] in North America Europe and Asia in countries and cities throughout the Northern Hemisphere it will be remembered as the coldest and cruelest winter of the 20th century [Music] Japan is buried beneath a bonsai of white thousands of flimsily built houses collapse under the heavy weight of tons of snow family wash is not hung out but staked out to dry in some areas 11 ft of snow fall in two weeks paralyzing everything in 25- Ft drifts hiding mailboxes under a wall of white hardest hit in Japan are the railroads passengers on the 6-hour nigata to Tokyo run arrive 1006 hours late almost 5 days without light food or heat The Savage winter terrifying in its Fury can also be spectacular in its scenery Niagara Falls wears a shroud of white as Canada and the United States shiver in sub breezing and Subzero cold it's as though a new ice age has descended upon the Northern Hemisphere harbors and rivers from Korea to the Mississippi from the north to the black seas are ice lot on a single day 20 of America's 64 major cities record temperature readings of zero or below and in some places along Europe's Baltic Coast the sea itself turns to [Music] ice snow falls for the first time in history in many of Europe's resort areas Sunny Spain is anything but and farther south 20 in of snow way down the palm trees of [Music] Sicily as the storms change countrysides into polar ice caps emergency feeding stations are set up for farm animals and [Music] [Applause] [Music] Wildlife cold and hunger overcome their instinctive fear of man and in Germany reindeer come in herds to to be fed and to be saved when animals cannot reach feeding stations volunteer ski out to the Frozen Fields thousands of sheep and cattle are saved but thousands more freeze or starve to death a lamb huddled in a snow bank is found and saved in a life-saving operation that's repeated in countries all across the stricken three continents the assault of snow and cold and storms is Relentless Grim evidence that man may be able to forecast and prepare for all kinds of weather but he cannot yet control its full and awesome Fury and so men and beasts suffer and try to fight back against the wicked winter that creates an international disaster hundreds of persons die thousands of animals perish destruction mounts into the millions of dollars as North America Europe and Asia struggle to dig out from the worst winter of the century England holds a crucial election the choice for the millions of British voters is whether to bring the labor party back into power and to end 8 years of conservative rule in the mining towns the labor party's leader Hugh SK finds a warm welcome and strong support at The Ballot Box a conservative Victory would be their third in succession the first time in more than a century that one party has won three consecutive times prime minister Harold McMillan is confident as he arrives to vote and so too here Winston Churchill 84 years young and a veteran of 50 years in Parliament when the ballots are counted the conservative score a smashing Triumph they double their majority in Commons as the British electorate gives a resounding vote of confidence to prime minister McMillan and a new lease on 10 Downing [Music] Street this is the Explorer 7 nicknamed the kitchen sink satellite because it is crammed with one of the most advanced space lab atory payloads ever designed and this is the 60 ton multistage Juno 2 rocket that will catapult Explorer 7 into space tucked in the Rocket's nose cone the kitchen sink satellite is designed to spin like a top at 450 revolutions per minute creating a gyroscopic effect that gives it more stability than previous satellites and now blast off performance is perfect as the Juno rocket begins its long and beautiful climb once an orbit it will remain there for years probing the mysteries of radiation Cosmic particles and temperatures a Peeping Tom in outer [Music] space to the Canary Islands come scientists from many nations for one of Nature's Most spectacular phenomena an eclipse of the sun they set up telescopes and cameras to study and record the Heavenly show the fleecy clouds help paint an even eerier picture in the sky Darkness settles over the islands as the moon passes in front of the [Music] Sun in the total eclipse scientists can study the Halo of light or Corona visible only when the sun is completely [Music] covered then in Nature's Own mysterious way the moon moves [Music] on for centuries man has studied the heavens like this someday soon perhaps he will journey into space for a closer look at the story in the Stars Sweden a power plant in trouble turban stilled by a sudden and violent storm and so there is a call a call across the waters to a power station in [Music] Denmark Sweden is calling for help because of the storm the same storm that even now lashes the trees here in Denmark [Applause] into the plant comes the standby crew Men of Denmark answering the call for help from Sweden men to fire the furnaces to raise steam steam to drive the turbines turbin that in their turn will drive the generators and so make power for Sweden as they stand waiting for the pressure to rise the Danes are waiting to pay back a debt for it is normally Sweden rich in power from her Mountain Streams that sends electricity to bolster the resources of Denmark but now it is Denmark's turn to help the pressure is moving up now the generators can roll the Danish plant hums with the sound of its generators [Music] Denmark and Sweden Partners in power a partnership that any hour any day can cross political boundaries and overcome barriers of space the first surge of power and Sweden is supplied [Music] a final call the job is done the crisis passed nature knows no Frontiers and in the face of her hazards men of Goodwill turn to help each other regardless of boundary lines or the Seas that lie between the world a scrips Howard newspaper famed for its award-winning news coverage and its expert interpretation of the meaning behind the news with its up Toth minute reporting of local National and international happenings morning till night a good newspaper to grow 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