The use of walkie talkie hand held two way radios at a hospital in San Francisco, California. A man explains the functioning of the walkie talkie radios to the doctors and the nurses. Operator seated at the switch board. A doctor receives a reporting signal from the early model pager, via a beep, and can hear information from the switchboard operator and respond. A mother hears the wails of her new born baby through the walkie talkie as it serves the role of early baby monitor.
Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore,Maryland. Large crowd of spectators gathered at the Pimlico race course. A man blows a bugle to start the race. The race begins. Bidders and spectators cheer their horses. Fabius horse wins the race over Needles. The bidders for Fabius appear happy and toss kisses.
Camden Stakes in Camden, New Jersey. Large crowd of spectators gathered at the race course. Bidders and spectators cheer for racehorse Nashua. Nashua with jockey Eddie Arcaro wins the race and a prize money of $22,000.
Queen Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother) visits Versailles in France. Her Rolls Royce Phantom car pulls up to the entrance of the Versailles palace. A man opens her car doors and moves aside. A uniformed officer holds the door and salutes, as the Queen Mother steps from the car and is greeted by a bearded gentleman in a turban, and French diplomats. She greets people in the receiving line and then enters the palace. Many press reporters and photographers follow. Later, the Queen Mother arrives by car, again, this time, dressed for dinner, wearing a triple pearl necklace. She is greeted cordially and escorted by a diplomat. Exterior views of Versailles, including the equestrian statue of Louis XIV.
The Greenbrier Resort at White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, United States. Flag of Mexico and Red Ensign of Canada flank the U.S. flag at front of the building. President Dwight D. Eisenhower chats with Louis St. Laurent, Prime Minister of Canada, who waves his hat to crowd of spectators standing in cordoned off area. President Eisenhower shakes hands with Mexican President, Adolfo Ruiz Cortines. Secrtetary of State, John Foster Dulles, stands behind President Eisenhower. The three heads of state pose for photographers.
Rocket sled test of aircraft ejection seat, at Edwards Air Force Base, California. Engineers put a helmet and oxygen mask over a dummy's head. Rocket sled accelerates and ejection seat actuates. Seat seen flying through the air and finally hitting the ground. Braking head on the sled creates wave of water as it slows. Ejection seat and damaged head of the dummy on the ground. A pilot sits in cockpit of an airplane.