A party on Parisian set of 'Wild and Wonderful' at Universal City in California. People on the set. Woman clicks pictures. A car arrives. 'Miss France of America' Vivian LaForge steps down from the car. Actor Tony Curtis crowns Miss Vivian LaForge. Christine Kaufmann, German-Austrian actress and wife of Tony Curtis, looks on. Veteran Canadian American actress Fifi D’Orsay meets LaForge on set. A dog named Bernardo Barkalot also appears on set. Sign of a Parisian cafe. Miss France of America stands with a woman. Aerial view of a set based on a Montmartre, Paris Street.
Frank Sinatra Junior, the son of singer Frank Sinatra, is kidnapped in California. View of Harrah's casino in Lake Tahoe, Nevada. Sign on casino advertises George Jessel and the Mary Kay Trio, along with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, Helen Forrest, Pied Pipers, Sam Donahue, and Chas. Shavers. Frank Sinatra Jr performs at Harrah's casino in Lake Tahoe along with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra. Room no 417 of the motel in Lake Tahoe from where he was kidnapped. John Foss at the press conference about Sinatra Junior's Kidnapping. Policemen at road lock. Policeman stops a Volkswagen beetle in the snow. Closeup of Frank Sinatra as narrator comments on ransom instructions issued by the kidnappers. Sign identifying Bel Air. People gathered where Frank Sinatra Junior was released a few miles from his home. Closeup of him with mother Nancy Barbato and sister, Nancy. He talks to reporters about his feelings during kidnapping. Reporters ask questions from his mother, who replies and ask them to end their questioning.
Film opens with views of the Ballistic Missile Early Warning System (BMEWS) radar installation at Thule, Greenland. View of two airmen walking underneath one of the huge antennas. Scene shifts to the U.S. Air Force Strategic Air Command (SAC) Command Post at Offutt Air Force Base, in Nebraska, where data from the BMEWS system is displayed on its monitors. The SAC Senior Controller, a Colonel, is seen on the "gray phone," via which he can communicate directly with various SAC entities. More views of BMEWS radar facilities. Back at the SAC Command Post, the camera focuses on the Operations Officer Controller, a Major, occupying number 4 controller position. He is seen talking on the gray phone. He presses a button labeled "Pease" (for Pease Air Force Force Base). View of his assistant (A master Sergeant). Next a flight of F-105 Thunderchief aircraft are seen closeup in formation with a SAC KC-135 tanker, from which one is receiving inflight refueling. View further away of the four F-105s and their tanker. Back at the Command Post, a Captain and a master Sergeant are keeping track of logistics affecting SAC worldwide. View of ordnance being transported on a SAC flightline. An officer and NCO on phones, and airmen on duty at switchboards of the SAC worldwide communications network encompassing ground lines of telephone, teletype, plus low frequency, high frequency, and ultra high frequency radio links. Switch board operator plugging in lines on the board. Camera pans over the controllers' positions at the command post. The Senior Controller (Colonel) asks the Operations Officer Controller (Major) to do a maintenance test of the primary alert system, whereupon, the Major lifts the red phone, and announces a test of all stations. Aerial view of SAC B-52 bombers parked on hardstands at an alert facility. Inside the alert area, SAC crew members are seen in their billets, where they stand 15 minute ground alert. One is playing a guitar, while the other is reading a manual. A partially open Minuteman missile silo, and a Titan II Intercontinental Ballistic missile (ICBM) silo opening with its missile being raised. A missile control crew inside the complex. More views of the SAC command and control center, at Offutt Air Force Base.
A news presenter speaks about President Johnson's assuming office under strained times. An excerpt from a file interview with the then Vice President Lyndon Johnson follows. Lyndon Johnson talks about his childhood, his school and college life. He reveals that it was his childhood ambition to become a Senator. His father was a public representative which created his interest in public life and politics. He also talks about his experience as a Vice President of United States.
Newly appointed President Lyndon Johnson in a file interview as the then Vice President at his ranch in Texas. Johnson talks about the development, standard of living and industrial progress in United States. He believes that it is the peculiar system of government in America that has lead to its success. The system of free enterprise takes due care of the needs of all three sections of the population- the capitalists,the mangers and the workers. Johnson says the biggest problem is of learning to get along with the rest of the world.
Newly appointed President of United States Lyndon Johnson in a file television interview as the then Vice President at his ranch in Texas. He talks about his achievements in public life over the years. He speaks about how as a Senator he worked for the many causes including construction of a dam over the Colorado River, Civil Rights Bills, and his role in the Johnson-McCormack act in 1958. He also talks about his contribution to various ongoing projects like equal employment,man on moon program.