Indian Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri arrives in Egypt for the Second meeting of Non-Aligned Nations. Lal Bahadur Shastri, who succeeded Nehru, arrives by a plane in Cairo and is greeted by the President of Egypt, Gamal Abdel Nasser. They review the honor guards. Flags of 47 Non-Aligned Nations fly from tall flag poles. Shastri and Nasser enter a building and attend the Second meeting of Non-Aligned Nations.
Twenty five thousand workers step out of railroad cars to work on building the Aswan Dam on River Nile in Egypt. A truck unloads tons of rocks and deposits on the banks of the Nile River. Engineers and engineering supervisors from Russia sit on scaffolds and plan the process. Rocks and manufacturing material transported across the river in a boat. Water slides down from a natural ramp.
Opening slate reads: "ANCIENT ART SAVED, Engineers To Move Treasures of the Nile." A sightseeing river boat plies waters of the Nile river approaching the Egyptian Temples of Ramses II, on its banks, in Nubia. Visitors are seen taking photographs in front of the four 65 foot statues of Ramses II in the facade of the Temple, while engineers are cutting them into pieces that will be reassembled 200 feet above the coming flood created by the new Aswan Dam in Egypt. Camera pans over smaller images and inscriptions at the site, and many embossed images cut into huge stone pillars. Statues inside the Temple tower above a man standing near them. Closeup of two of them. View of engineers making measurements on a wall filled with hieroglyphics. Four more interior statues well as the exterior statues of Ramses II are seen in stages of disassembly A worker standing beside the huge head of Ramses II statue .Camera pans over the ancient site. (Narrator states that the international effort to save and move the temple will cost 36 million dollars, with Egypt and the United States, each contributing one third, and the United Nations obtaining the rest from member nations.)
A ship sails past the Abu Simbel temple (also known as the Temple of Pharaoh Ramesses II) along the banks of the Nile river in Nubia, Egypt. View of the Abu Simbel temple. Egyptian hieroglyphs and carvings in stone from Abu Simbel temple. Egyptian engineers inside Abu Simbel. Large stone ancient Egyptian statues inside Abu Simbel. Egyptian engineers measure a wall with Egyptian hieroglyphs. Egyptian and foreign engineers measure statues and walls in Abu Simbel. Aerial view of Abu Simbel and the Nile river.
Nikita Khrushchev waves and smiles from a moving train car. Narrator relates that Khrushchev has resigned from his post as Soviet Premier. Khruschev at a meeting. Scenes from Khrushchev's career. Khruschev shakes hand with Chinese communist leader Chairman Mao Zedong and they exchange books in a signing ceremony. Khruschev shaking hands with President Nasser of Egypt. Khruschev at UN meeting in 1960 tries to purge Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld. Khruschev speaking in a loud and animated fashion and shaking his fist from the UN podium. Khrushchev and other Soviet UN members pound their fists on their desks to disrupt the UN meeting. View of a May Day parade underway in Soviet Russia's Red Square. Khruschev waves at attendees of the May Day parade at Red Square. Leonid Brezhnev and Aleksei Kosygin seated with Khrushchev at a Soviet Central Committee meeting. Brezhnev at podium clapping hands as others in the Central Committee Hall stand and clap in a standing ovation. Brezhnev addresses people. Khrushchev in a large gathering hall with many celebrants at his 70th birthday celebration. He is shown smiling and laughing. He stands during a toast. Many medals are pinned on his jacket.