A documentary about Project Breakthrough by the office of Economic Opportunity Community Action Program to teach preschool children language skills in the Chicago region (Cook County, Illinois.) African American children from poor families board the bus to go to school. View of black children boarding school bus. View of yellow school bus driving away. Children finger painting at school. At the school a child takes another child to introduce him to a talking typewriter. One of the project officials Pamela Jung speaks about the concept of children as tour guides who help others to get used to the talking typewriter. African American children at talking typewriter as they explore the keyboard.
Activities of Strategic Air Command (SAC) 576th Missile Training Squadron. Atlas ICBM on launch pad. Airmen work around base of missile. The 392nd Missile Training Squadron has responsibility for 5 Thor missile launch pads. Aerial view of Thor missile complex. Thor missile raised on operational launch pad. Ocean in the background. Airmen work on missile. Other pads used for launch of Discoverer Orbiting vehicles. 395th Missile Training Squadron involved with Titan Missile crews. A Titan missile being launched at Cape Canaveral, Florida. Test launch of a tethered Minuteman missile. It climbs and then flips over and is pulled to earth by tether. Atlas missile on trailer. Atlas in a launch tower being readied for launch from permanent vertical position. . Airmen work around Atlas. Other Atlas missiles, placed in a horizontal position, and being raised in vertical position for firing. Semi-hardened bunker constructed for Atlas. Officers in control room watch instrument panels and gauges. Titan missile being raised upward into firing postion from inside hardened silo. Sign reads 'Headquarters, First Missile Division, Strategic Air Command, Vandenberg AFB'. USAF airmen and officers attend missile classes. Officers and airmen operate missile launch controls in a launch control center. Thor missile on launch pad. Airmen work in assembly. Various missiles being raised for firing.
Damage caused due to drought in Texas. Farmer walks on a barren field due to a drought. Close up view of weathered hands of a farmer as he runs his hands through dry earth. Cattle on a dry field. Cattle on a farm. Farmers drive trucks to a water tower in Stonewall Texas and use a coin-operated machine to fill water vessels. Empty stock pens due to losses of cattle from drought. A farmer brings some cattle to a small pond.
Training for the medical students in California, United States. A computerized mannequin lying on a hospital bed. The dummy stimulates almost every possible function and reaction of a normal human patient. Student works on the dummy during a medical training.
United States rotor craft in flight in California, United States. It is the world's most advanced combat rotor craft. The rotor craft parked at an air base. Pilot in the cockpit. The rotor craft takes off.
American Lee Taylor sets water speed record in Turbo-Jet craft named 'Hustler' near Guntersville, Alabama. 'Compton California Youth Center' written on the speed boat. He rides his turbo jet craft Hustler on a lake near Guntersville. Lee Taylor sets a record of 285 miles per hour.