ENTHUSIASM IN MOSCOW
Arrests Outside Kremlin
(Rec. 11 p.m.) MOSCOW, August 2
Police arrested more than a dozen Russian youths outside the Kremlin walls early today for being too rowdy in celebrating Moscow’s youth festival. The youths were alleged lu have been part of a crowd ot several hundred Russians milling around Manezhnyl square, buttonholing festival delegates, teasing the militia police and refusing to disperse. Large crowds have been swarming into the city’s main squares and blocking traffic until the early hours every morning since the festival began on Sunday.
Several games records were set in the athletics events at the International Youth Games yesterday. The record-breakers were: Pole vault: Vitali Chernobai (Soviet Union), 14ft 9in; long jump: Henry Grabowski (Poland), 24ft sfin; 400-metres relay: Soviet Union team, 40.25ec.; javelin: Janusz Sidlo (Poland), 262 ft Ijin; women’s 80-metres hurdles: Nelly Yeliseyeva (Soviet Union), 10.8 sec.
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Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28346, 3 August 1957, Page 13
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