Three Soviet Airmen land on an airfield in San Jacinto,California after flying over the North Pole 6,700 miles without a stop from Moscow. Large crowd gathers at the airfield and greet their arrival.
Perry O. Stoughton sets on a 1000-mile voyage to San Diego on his sailing raft from Crescent City in California. Canned food and a barrel of drinking water is aboard the raft. Large crowd gathers at the peer to bid him farewell.
America's amateur divers dive at a pool in Palm Springs, California, United States, in preparation for upcoming Olympic trials. Somersaults, flips and twist dives performed by the athletes. Champion Garry Tobias gets injured as he slips off the end of the platform while performing a dive. Narrator notes that Tobias required 15 stitches in his leg from the incident. Several other amateur divers dive from a high platform into the pool. Comedy diving group from New York called the Aquazanies demonstrates funny group dives during a show.
Two men work on a light weight rocket powered helicopter called Pinwheel, at an airfield in Los Alamitos in California. It has a stilt like landing gear. Pilot wears his helmet and enters the helicopter. Helicopter lifts off the ground.
Gymnasts do calisthenics in the 22nd Swiss-American Gymnastic Festival in San Francisco, California. Gymnasts work on pommel-horse and parallel bars.
Ranchers give hot oil bath to sheep in Le Grand California, to have a high quality wool. Men clean up the big sheep yard. Views of flock of sheep in a yard and grazing in the field. Bathing the sheep in hot oil is suggested as punishment for the violators of the 'Blue Law'.
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