View of the General Assembly Hall in New York, USA. U Thant from Burma is unanimously re-appointed as the Secretary General of the United Nations. Assembly members give a standing ovation.
Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin visits French President Charles De Gaulle in France. View of the meeting hall with Kosygin and De Gaulle meeting. Dignitaries shake hands with the guests at a reception in the Élysée Palace (55 Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, 75008 Paris, France). View of chandeliers and decorated dining hall in the Élysée Palace. Dignitaries seated at their tables.
Scenes from an assembly hall meeting in Germany. Kurt Georg Kiesinger is sworn in as the Chancellor of West Germany. Attendees stand up and applaud. Dignitaries exit the hall. Photographers take pictures of the dignitaries including, Kurt Kiesinger, Karl Heinrich Lübke, Willy Brandt.
View of the NFL game between AFL East Boston Patriots and Buffalo Bills at a stadium in Boston Massachusetts. Thousands of spectators gathered in the stadium. Jim Nance's 65-yard touchdown and Babe Parilli's 3-yard keeper helped the Patriots to beat the Bills by 14 to 3.
The Greek ferry, 'Heraklion', en-route from Crete to Athen's Port, Piraeus, is sunk in the Aegean Sea during a fierce storm in which a truck reportedly broke loose and battered open her midship loading door, causing her to sink within 15 minutes. Search and rescue operations carried out from air and in water, the day after her sinking. . Rescue boats underway at the scene. Man wearing radio headset, looks from the window of a scout plane and throws out a flare to mark the location. Scattered debris on water. Sailors carry causalities on stretcher. Causalities put into ambulance. 235 passengers are reported dead or missing and only 49 managed to survive the tragedy. (Note : The USS Belknap (DLG-26) and the USS Columbus (CG-12) participated in the search for survivors but found none. The Belknap retrieved some remains that were transferred to Greek authorities, the next day.) (Additional note: Some music at start of this newsreel, but no other sound or narrative.)
Four rare Risso's Dolphins perform tricks in a swimming pool at Marineland in Florida. Dolphins swim with a diver. Dolphins jump high in air to grab fish from the hands of a man standing on a platform above the pool.
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