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Carol Morris of United States wins the Miss Universe title in Long Beach, California.
Beauty pageants of 1956 and 1957. Contestants of Miss America 1957 pageant walk the ramp in Boardwalk Hall (2301 Boardwalk, Atlantic City, NJ 08401, United States), Atlantic City, New Jersey. Miss America contestants in white ballgown dresses holding flags in the ramp. Marian McKnight of South Carolina is crowned Miss America. Miss America 1956 Sharon Ritchie puts a crown on Marian McKnight. Carol Morris of Iowa wins the Miss Universe contest in Long Beach, California.
Fulgencio Batista's police spy, Colonel Antonio Blanco Rico, is assassinated and General Rafael Salas Canizares shot in Cuba.
April 1956: Revolutionary forces in Cuba increase pressure on the government of Fulgencio Batista. Soldiers and Police patrol the streets. A U.S. Army officer talks to soldiers. A bullet ridden car. Soldiers and civilians around thirteen dead revolutionists lying between trucks in a courtyard. Batista and Defense Minister Garcia Montez inspect the captured arms and ammunition captured in police raids against the guerrilla rebels. Publicity and trials follow. Men wave pictures. October 1956: Exterior of a building. Batista's police spy Colonel Antonio Blanco Rico is assassinated. Picture of the rebel suspects in a newspaper. A man takes notes. General Rafael Salas Canizares is shot during an attack on the Haitian Embassy. Officers, officials and civilians surround General Canizares' coffin as it is led away. A man consoles a grieving woman.
U.S. Paratroopers jump from aircraft and build ice shelters in Greenland during "Exercise Arctic Night."
U.S. paratroops of the 82nd Airborne Division participate in joint Army-Air Force "Operation Arctic Night."conducted from 2-13-1956 to 3-14-1956, in Greenland. With ambient temperatures of minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit, Paratroopers in Arctic parkas, with their parachutes underneath, are so burdened that they waddle like penguins as they board waiting C-124 aircraft, at Thule Air Force Base, Greenland. Sign erected in snow reads: 'North Pole, 802 Miles, Fort Bragg, N.C. Home of 82nd Airborne 3500 Miles'. Troops seated inside C-124 aircraft. A flight of three large Douglas C-124C Globemaster aircraft, in formation, carries the entire group of 700 paratroopers, who make a mass jump from the aircraft to land on the Greenland icecap. Parachutes billowing as troopers land on the ice. They assist one another as they land. The paratroopers dig snow shelters and build shelters with ice blocks on the icecap.
President Dwight D. Eisenhower parries newsmen 's questions at an informal press conference in Key West, Florida.
U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower's plans for 1956 are still a secret after a press conference in Key West, Florida. President Eisenhower speaks at an informal press conference. Newsmen question him about his plans for 1956. The President parries newsmen 's questions and smiles.
Adlai Stevenson delivers a speech during the 1956 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois.
The 1956 Democratic National Convention at the International Amphitheater (4220 South Halsted Street Chicago, Illinois 60609 United States) in Chicago, Illinois. Democratic nominee for President Adlai Stevenson speaks into a microphone and expresses his gratefulness to the delegates for electing him as the Presidential nominee. He speaks about the importance of the Vice-Presidential candidate. He says that the Vice-Presidential nominee must be chosen through a free process of the convention.
Adlai Stevenson, Estes Kefauver and Harry Truman on a podium during the 1956 Democratic Convention in Chicago, Illinois.
The 1956 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois. A man addresses the convention from a podium. Delegates carry placards of different states at the convention. Another man speaks into the microphone. Senator John F. Kennedy at the podium as he addresses the delegates. Senator Estes Kefauver and his wife at the podium after he won the nomination for Vice President. Kefauver waves to the crowd. The delegates carry posters and placards. Former President Harry S. Truman speaks into the microphone. Senator Kefauver and his wife at the podium. Presidential nominee Adlai Stevenson on the podium. Truman with Stevenson and Kefauver. Senator Kennedy on the podium with Democratic nominees. Photographers take pictures. Adlai Stevenson and his family on the podium.
