Launch of Friendship 7 piloted by astronaut John Glenn in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Emblem of NASA. Message in light circling the Times Building in Manhattan, New York City, at night, reads: 'Glenn ready for orbital flight.' A title slate reads: 'Friendship 7'. View of Times Square New York City, at night. Views from various parts of the world, with voices in background, broadcasting about the event in their respective local languages. Parliament buildings in London. Wide view of the Eiffel Tower in Paris at dusk or dawn. A woman in a vegetable market. People buying and selling goods in an Arab market including some men wearing Keffiyeh. A neighborhood in China. A Japanese city at night with neon signs. A Mexican man carrying a guitar. View of various images broadcast on television (the images show the television screens) from American cities, including titles "Man into space -- Los Angeles;" "Sioux City --Mercury shoot;" "New Orleans-- standing by orbital flight." and "Please stand by man in orbit --Boston."
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.
First Chinese refugee family arrives in Chicago, Illinois under an emergency immigration plan. The Eng family arrives under emergency immigration laws to allow the refugees to enter the country and receive asylum from Communist rule in China. The family had been waiting in Taiwan since 1955 and had not succeeded in entering the U.S. under a quota that permitted only 105 Chinese persons per year. Chinese refugees get off an airplane. They meet their family. They enter a building. Food on a table. The family seated at the table eats the food.