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NEWS YEARENDER 1962 - (AMERICAN VERSION) - SOUND

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(13 Jan 1962) 

In 1962 President Kennedy was constantly the centre of interest.  Mr Pandit Nehru got the surprise of his life and Charles De Gaulle became France.  Cu Kruschev and Mao Tse Tung. 90 miles from Florida, Fidel Castro's Cuba provoked the U.S.A. to quarantine the island.  Aerial pictures gathered by U2 reconnaissance planes revealed the presence on Cuban soil of offensive Russian nuclear weapons.  In response, Kennedy re-inforced Guantanamo Naval Base and presently the Soviet missiles and planes returned to their point of origin.  The world's first privately owned satellite "Telstar" was thrust into space.  It relayed Television pictures instantaneously across the Atlantic Ocean.  With Colonel Glenn as pioneer, the U.S. lofted its first orbiting manned satelitte.  Commander Carpenter followed.  Their 3 orbit flights were surpassed by Commander Schirra's 6 orbits.  The fullest publicity attended the launching of the Project Mercury Capsules.  The U.S. continued to another space triumph with Mariner II, an umanned spacecraft with orders to gather data on the planet Venus.  In Berlin, the East Germans and their Russian brothers celebrated the 1st anniversary of the Wall.  The Algerian War ended and independence was granted following various OAS murders.  Algerians went to the polls.  Ahmed Ben Balla returned from exile.  In Rome, Pope John presided over the first Ecumenical Council for nearly 100 years.  President Kennedy's Wife (Jacqueline) went to india, and then Italy with her daughter Caroline.  Eleanor Roosevelt died, and so did Marilyn Monroe (3 shots of Monroe with troops in Korea and 3 CU's of her waving from back of the car).  The engineering oddity was the Flip ship.  At Atlantic City, Jacquelin Mayer becam Miss America.

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