Operation Head Start in United States. Volunteer demonstrates a rabbit to children at Head Start Pre-school. She asks a boy to hold it and tries to remove his suspicion and fear. Children hold rabbit. One teacher with two assistants in a class of 15 students. Teacher carries a boy and cuddles him. Volunteer plays guitar, sings in a class and children sing along. A boy stands aloof. He joins the group afterwards. Children build toy rail road and play in sandbox. They fight and teacher interrupts to resolve their fight. A boy rides cycle while another stands with teacher waiting for their turn. They stop the boy at 'Stop' board and exchange cycle. Two little girls play with dolls and shopping trolley. They wear hats and footwear bigger than their size. Children play role of doctor. Teacher helps a boy to listen to his own heartbeat with stethoscope. He uses it on his teacher too.
Operation Head Start in United States. Volunteers talk to families of deprived children at their home. African American woman with curlers in her hair holding a young child and meeting with a volunteer. Volunteers meeting with a family for counselling. Volunteers discuss about their problems at Head Start Center. Volunteers work in kitchen at the center and give food to the children. They play with the children in class and playground. A volunteer helps a little girl to wear clothes.
Operation Head Start in United States offering early childhood school and preschool programs for children living in poverty. Volunteers cross road with children and get on a bus. Teacher writes on a board in classroom. Replicas of fruits and vegetable lay on cabinet. Mothers of deprived children sit and listen to volunteers at Head Start Center. Volunteer asks a mother about her family members. She replies that her nine children live in a four-room house. Curtain at window. Exteriors of a building. Volunteer discusses the housing problem with a man and request to provide two apartments to this family. Interiors of the house of a poor rural woman with seven children and no job. African American woman seen with several children at house watching as men deliver a stove.
Operation Head Start in United States. Head Start teacher visits a family. A woman gives bag of vegetables to the teacher as a gift. A couple and their child arrive at Head Start with a dish of food for pot luck. Kids hit a pinata with a stick and then reach for candy when the pinata opens. Volunteers give paper bags with gifts enclosed to children and their parents. A child wearing a graduation cap leaves Head Start pre-school with his mother and father.
Scenes of U.S. Strategic Air Command Minuteman Missile Security Police at work in missile bases at Malmstrom AFB, Great Falls. Montans, Minot AFB, North Dakota, Elsworth AFB, Rapid City, South Dakota, Francis E. Warren AFB. Cheyenne, Wyoming, and Whiteman AFB, Missouri. An armed Air Force Security policeman walks past a parked B-52 bomber. Air Force film "Missile Guardians, SAC's Minutemen Security Police." Animated description of Missile Control Facilities. Missile Combat Officer opens 8 ton blast resistant door of facility. Interior of Launch Center with Officer at duty station. Safe (Red) containing missile launch keys. View of missile location, showing fence and intrusion detection radar antenna. Access cover, above missile, with seismic alarm system and combination lock. Security Police Controller in his office. Security alert team is summoned to respond to intrusion alarm. (Note: Narrated by Kemal Amen "Casey" Kasem)
Security Forces from 90th Security Police Squadron on duty with Minuteman missile system at Francis E. Warren AFB, Cheyenne Wy. Board reads 9Oth SPS Armory. Two-man Security team checkout M-16 rifle and sidearm weapons from issuing window, and head out on their assigned patrol. Other Security police muster for inspection and instructions at the start of their duty period. Insignia of SAC on wall in room. African American officer conducts briefing with team members. Teams are dispatched to inspect security at Minuteman launch facility including some outer zone radars. Guards on standby can watch television, read books and study. View of Security team sleeping quarters in launch facility. A cook preparing a meal. A team responds in a truck, to a possible intrusion. Snow on the ground. (Note: Narrated by Kemal Amen "Casey" Kasem)