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The Chinese boat dwellers taken to their new homes in a British colony, Hong Kong.
The British Government relocates the Chinese boat dwellers or Tanka people in Hong Kong. Sampan boat houses crowd in Aberdeen Harbor. The British colonial government provides one room for each family in this large-scale housing project. Vehicles on the beachhead carry the boat dwellers to the British Crown colony. The boats are destroyed.
Civilians struggle to get water from communal water supply during acute water supply shortage in the British Crown Colony of Hong Kong.
Acute water supply shortage in the British Crown Colony of Hong Kong. An area overcrowded from refugees from Mainland China. Civilians struggle to get water from the communal water supply. Communal taps fill water containers. Reservoirs of water near the colony dried from a drought. Children carry cans filled with water.
The first American orbital spaceflight carrying astronaut John Glenn, "Friendship 7", before launching to space from Cape Canaveral
NASA logo. A message scrolls from a sign saying, “Glenn ready for orbital flight”. A message scrolls through the black screen “Friendship 7”. View of Times Square across the Hotel Claridge and the iconic “Camel Man” billboard. View of London, United Kingdom across the Big Ben Tower of London. View of Paris, France. Italian vegetable market vendor peels an artichoke and talks about the American astronaut, John Glenn, and his impending take off from Cape Canaveral as the first American to orbit earth. An Arab vendor sells children’s jackets. View of Hong Kong. View of Japanese neon signs in Tokyo- a Japanese kanji character meaning “East”, and “Toshiba”. A Mexican mariachi walks in a park carrying a guitar case. Views of television sets showing news about the launch of Friendship 7- the spaceship carrying John Glenn. Close-up views of various consumer vintage black and white television sets with television screens all showing scenes about Friendship 7 preparing to launch. McDonnell engineers work in Cape Canaveral to prepare Friendship 7 for launch. Engineers jot down notes. A NASA engineer pushed some buttons. An “Astronautics” scientist observes the status of the Friendship 7.