Shoppers at the E. J. Korvette store at 45th street in New York City. Santa Claus stands in front of the store, ringing a bell to raise money for the Volunteers of America. In the store, children play with toys under a sign reading 'Toyland.' Views of the store while riding down the escalator. A woman dressed in a fur coat shops in the housewares department. In Concord, California, college students pack gifts that are being sent to United States soldiers fighting war in Vietnam. View of entrance to Travis Air Force Base. The workers for Operation Christmas Star load gifts for the GIs into a Douglas C-124 Globemaster cargo plane at Travis Air Force Base. Students watch as the plane takes off. (Vietnam War period).
Children and adults buy gifts and toys during Christmas celebrations in New York. Children enjoy colorful and lighted swings in shops. Views of a "wedding in India" theme in a Manhattan shop window, featuring animatronic characters. Children with their mothers watch various toys and artistic puppet shows from windows of a shop. Lighting on skyscrapers and roads of New York City. Lighting on items kept on display in various shops including Saks Fifth Avenue. Tourists watch the lighting and decoration on Christmas tree at Radio City Plaza (Rockefeller Plaza). Ice skaters at the Rockefeller Center ice rink skate by an illuminated Christmas tree.
Participants compete during a car race on the frozen Lake Naomi in Pennsylvania. Forty six drivers run on frozen lake and sit in their cars. Cars speed up on the frozen lake during the race. The winner steps out of his car and shakes hands and congratulated by the organizers.
A crowd of spectators, numbering 27,000, gathered to watch the $100,000 handicap horse race, at the Gulfstream Park in Florida, United States. The race starts with a clean break and number 7, "Bold Purple", takes the early lead. But, as the 1and a quarter mile race continues, other horses trade the lead until it is finally won by number 6, "Yorkie."
Jack Nicklaus wins the U.S. Open Championship in golf, defeating favored Arnold Palmer at the Oakmont Country Club in Oakmont, Pennsylvania, United States. Golf swings by Palmer and Nicklaus are seen. Various professional golfers play their shots as the spectators watch closely. Winner Jack Nicklaus talks with Palmer after Palmer misses his final shot and concedes the game. Mrs. Nicklaus hugs her husband, the 22 year old Jack Nicklaus.
NASA in the United States launches space probe Ranger VII from Cape Canaveral launch pad LC-12 for a mission to photograph the surface of the moon. The space probe Ranger VII during its launching aboard an Atlas missile. View of some of the more than 700 photographs of the moon's surface taken by the cameras on the space ship.
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