Preparations for the launch of an Atlas 12 D missile at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, United States. A service structure is backed away from the missile. The Mark II nose cone on the top of the missile. United States Air Force personnel operate control panels in the launch control room. The countdown clock and TV monitors in the background. The missile on the launching platform. LOX vapors stream from the missile. USAF personnels at the launch control panels and watch TV monitors. A countdown clock. Personnel at the control panels of the consoles. Atlas on launch pad. LOX vapors around the missile.
The 42nd Anniversary celebration of the Boy Scouts of America celebrated in San Francisco, California. People gather for the celebration. Aerial view of Boy Scouts gathered on the deck of the USS Intrepid (CV-11). The Boy Scouts spell out their motto "Be Prepared" in giant human chain letters across the deck of the aircraft carrier. Officers and other people seated in chairs at the ceremony. People applaud. The recommissioning of carrier USS Intrepid. Close view of a a group of Asian-American Cub Scouts on the deck. A replica of the Liberty Bell, the symbol of Boy Scout Week, is presented to a U.S. Navy officer by Scout Krazner.
The National Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) Men's Swimming Championship in California, United States. A large crowd gathers to watch the championship. Men dive and swim during the championship. People cheer.
Comedy clip from a newsreel. A man goes for fishing at Cypress Gardens in Florida, United States. A man drives a very small car along a road. He carries fishing gear with him. The car moves along a street. The man passes a large station wagon car that is pulling a large boat. The other driver yells at him as he is forced off the road. The man smokes a cigarette. He hand-carries a very small, flimsy, plastic boat to a dock and puts it in the water. He climbs into the boat and it promptly sinks into the lake water under his weight and size.
Former U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon in California, United States.. Aerial view of the city. Nixon gets off a car with his wife and enters a building. He poses in front of cameramen. He casts his vote for the Republican nomination for Governor of California. His opponent Edmund Gerald "Pat" Brown Sr. arrives with his wife. Cameramen take their photographs
The opening of the Empire State Building (20 W 34th St., New York, NY 10001) in New York City, United States, billed as the tallest structure in the world. Aerial views of the building and other skyscrapers of Manhattan.
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