U.S. Naval officer William Anderson is conferred the Legion of Merit in Washington DC, United States. U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower present at a ceremony in the White House in honor of William Anderson completed a submerged transit across the North Pole aboard U.S. Navy submarine USS Nautilus . President Eisenhower and Anderson with military personnel and government officials. Photographers taking pictures. Several officials seated. President Eisenhower presents the Legion of Merit to William Anderson. The President shakes hands with him. William Anderson shows the course of his voyage on a map. 'Cruise of the Nautilus' written on the map. Anderson smiles. The submarine in water. Water splashing against the submarine.
Former U.S. President Herbert Hoover in New York, United States. The former President at a press conference in a hotel on his 84th birthday. Hoover seated and a few pressmen beside him holding microphones. Several cameramen at cameras. Herbert Hoover smiling.
Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko in New York City, New York. Andrei Gromyko comes down the steps of an aircraft at an airport. The Foreign Minister is greeted by Soviet ambassador to the United Nations Arkady Sobolev. The men shake hands. Policemen on guard beside the dignitaries. Photographers take pictures of the officials. Gromyko and Sobolev walk followed by other officials. Foreign Minister Gromyko speaking at a UN General Assembly emergency meeting on the Middle East in United Nations Building.
A train wreck in New York, United States, near border of New York and New Jersey. Two Erie Railroad trains collided on a railway track. Several men beside the collision area. Damaged compartments of the trains on the track. A railway official moving between seats inside one of the trains. Dislocated seats and broken windows. Firemen and volunteers removing bodies from the trains. A group of men inside one of the trains trying to remove the dead bodies stuck between the parts of the train. Two men standing on ladders kept against a train and holding a white piece of cloth. Men moving bodies on stretchers. Several men in the collision area.
Field and track events in Dublin, Ireland. A mile race gets underway as a gun is fired. Athletes run on the track as spectators cheer. Merv Lincoln leads after half a mile. Australia's Herb Elliot talks to reporter, Liam Browne, of Radio Telefís Éireann (RTE), after winning the race in a record time of 3 minutes 54 and a half seconds.
Displays in windows of different stores in New York City, United States. People milling about on a street as seen through a window. Toys on display in the window of a store. A man gets a haircut at a barber's shop. Women inside a clothing store as seen through a window. Flowers on display in the window of a florist's shop.