Space achievements in the United States in the year 1962. Atlas Missile is launched for the Mercury-Atlas 6 carrying NASA astronaut Glenn in Friendship 7. Smoke column rises. Crowd of people take photographers and watch the rocket launch. Colonel John Herschel Glenn arrives after orbiting the Earth. His wife greets and receives him. Astronauts John Herschel Glenn and Malcolm Scott Carpenter move in a motorcade followed by a ticker tape parade. Civilians gather to greet them. View of the White House. Astronaut Walter Marty Schirra being successful in making 6 orbits around the Earth. Schirra and his family visit White House to meet the U.S. President John F Kennedy.
A Spanish-speaking journalist reports on the developments of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. Words read "Cuba: Peligro Rojo" ("Cuba: Red Danger") beside the journalist. The journalist talks about the missile confrontation in Cuba inside a conference room of the Organization of American States (OAS) in Washington DC. The reporter reads from his report while holding a microphone. Nameplates bearing the names of countries from the Organization of American States such as Uruguay, Brazil, Costa Rica and Chile. The journalist reads from his report while a janitor cleans the conference room behind him. The journalist interviews a man who just arrived in the conference room. The man, a representative from the Organization of American States, talks about the ongoing Cuban Missile Crisis. The camera shows the seal of the Organization of American States in Spanish (“Organización de los Estados Americanos”).
Cars from nine countries displayed at the Sixth Annual Automobile Show in New York. Four hundred and fifty models of cars from United States and eight foreign countries are displayed at the auto show. A model dressed as a British Bobby police officer 'guards' the BMC booth which is showing a BMC-MG convertible. Front view of a Jaguar MK-X saloon. Two men look at a 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO. Cut-away view of a Volkswagen Karmann Ghia. A woman sits at the wheel of a Datsun Fair Lady Roadster, model SPL310 convertible. (L designation is for left hand drive) A model sits on the hood of a 1962 Cadillac.
United States President John F. Kennedy arrives at the Homestead Air Force Base in Florida, United States, during Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. Motorcade of President inspects flight line of various aircraft and crews. President's car stops in front of C-119G and then F-104C, The President talks with pilot and crew and returns to the car and inspects line of RF-101s. He then hangs a streamer ribbon on a flag and congratulates Colonel Arthur A. McCardan. He addresses the airmen and crowd over a microphone.
Film opens showing a bubbling stream at the Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming. Scene shifts to cars parked by tents at a camping area. One of the cars is a red 1962 Kaiser Jeep Wagoneer, with a canoe on its roof. Camera moves past the car to family with children in front of their camping tent, and continues toward woods, and back again. View of blue early 1960s Buick sedan parked at a car-camping campsite adjoining the first one. Occupants are preparing a meal at their table on tent platform. Next, light color early 1960s Dodge sedan automobile is seen with a U-Haul trailer behind it. Camera passed it and occupants of the campsite at their picnic table. Finally, the blue Buick is seen again, with a white travel trailer behind it.
Woman seen backing her 1962 Ford Galaxie convertible car out of carport of her house in the suburbs. Her husband is seated on a motorized lawn mower. View from inside Ford convertible as housewife backs out of the driveway and leaves driving on suburban streets; while her husband proceeds to cut the grass in the front yard, relying on motor power rather than personal exertion. Likewise, the woman driving along in her car, exerts little effort. Air Force personnel in uniform, at work in an office setting also expend little energy. A group of Air Force men engaged in calisthenics. A man exercising with dumbells for exercise and fitness. A man playing golf. Couples riding tandem bicycles, and paddling canoes. A group of men performing calisthenics and doing pushups. Several people swimming at a pool. Children being taught to swim by their father. Youth engaged in group swimming activities. A group of boys on a swim team line up and dive into the swimming pool.