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Highlights of 1955

Reel Number: 220880-26

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1955

Country: Argentina,Austria,England,Morocco,Switzerland,United Kingdom,USA

Location: Geneva,London,Rabat

TC Begins: 15:49:57

TC Ends: 15:56:18

Duration: 00:06:21

Highlights of 1955 Salk polio victory - Vaccine storage. Scientist Jonas Salk at press conference. Vaccines dispatched and kids queuing up and getting shots. 15:50:50 Parley at UN Geneva Summit re disarmament & Cold War: Interior conference and exterior Geneva UN building. 15:51:25 Hurricane Carol in North East USA. Floods and damage. 15:52:06 Plane crash in Rockies: Plane wreckage and rescue. Air disaster. 15:52:33 26Dec55 Argentina - Peron ousted - resigns and flees. Pius XII excommunicates Peron. Rioting. HQ of Labour Confederation looted. 15:53:10 Ike heart attack: Eisenhower in wheelchair. Motorcade in hometown of Gettysburg. Ike at mountain retreat. Ike with Nixon and others. 15:53:52 Princess Margaret & Peter Townsend royal romance: Margaret - Headlines “The Nation Waits” Townsend in street with others. 15:54:24 French Colonial crises in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia: riot aftermaths with burning cars and wreckage. Rabat - Huge crowd welcomes exiled Moroccan sultan Mohammed Ibn Yusuf. Yusuf sits on throne. 15:55:02 AFof L & CIO merge with Reuther & Meany. Unions. 15:55:34 Austria free: Austrian sovereignty restored - re Austrian State Treaty. Return of Austrian POWs from Russia - women holding pictures on train platform and tearful reunions. News Review

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