National Academy Convention held in Palo Alto, California. View of a swimming pool. Conventioneers stand near the pool. Chairs arranged in a row near the swimming pool. Men and women stand and talk in groups. Two women sit on chairs.
National Academy Convention held in Palo Alto, California. View of a swimming pool. Conventioneers arrange themselves near the swimming pool. They pose for a group photograph. Conventioneers smile while the photograph is taken. They stand and talk in groups. Men and women disperse later and walk away.
Vehicle Ambush Counter-attack techniques. Dramatization: A Corvair stops in the middle of a road. Two men get out. They take out hand guns and semi-automatic guns and wait in ambush for a Cadillac limousine. A woman sits on a motorbike she signals kidnappers using her walkie talkie handheld radio device. The men with guns come in front of the Cadillac limousine and stop the other car. Close up view of hands holding and firing a semi-automatic assault rifle. They shoot the driver and kidnap the passenger, putting a blindfold over his head as they put him into a van. Newspaper headlines about kidnappings, including the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa. California State Police logo. View of cars weaving through traffic cones in parking lot, learning evasive maneuvers. POV through front seat of police patrol car being driven at high speed. Shot of chauffeur polishing a Mercedes Benz. View of damaged cars in a junkyard, including a Trans Am and a Buick Riviera. Even though the Riviera has considerable front end damage, it is started easily by technicians. The narrator explains that cars can be used as weapons to get out of an ambush.
Vehicle Ambush Counter-attack techniques. Cars are driven through road barricades as narrator explains use of a vehicle as a weapon to push aside cars that are being used to ambush. Cars are hit in the rear or front quarters by the escape vehicles to demonstrate disruption of an ambush. POV driver side of car as gunmen drive alongside and shoot the driver. Wide shots of same ambush on driver as it takes place on road curve. Defensive maneuvers by driver include hitting the brakes hard to throw off the aim of gunmen. View of motorcycle on same curve. View of Molotov cocktail being thrown at a car. Narrator explains that having the window up helps to ward off a Molotov cocktail attack as views of burning car are seen. A chauffeur waits on the street in front of a Cadillac limousine. A man emerges from an office building and gets into the limousine. POV of limousine driver as he drives to evade attackers, and reaches under dashboard to turn on a siren. Woman in 1970s fashions sits on a motorcycle radioing ahead to attackers on her walkie talkie.
Composer Hanns Eisler and his wife at the New York City airport. He is moving to London by plane. He decides to leave voluntarily as he is facing Deportation charges. His brother Communist Gerhard Eisler and his wife bid them farewell at the airport. Aircraft in the background. Hanns Eisler and his wife board the aircraft. Plane taxis.
United States' longest indoor ski slope in New York City. Several girls stand in a group with skis on top of the slide. Boys and girls try skiing. The girls try skiing one by one. They ski on the borax-covered slide. Several girls fall while skiing.
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