Brooklyn Dodgers get ready for 1956 baseball season at spring training camp in Vero Beach Florida. Players seen stretching, throwing on field. Announcer, talking in stereotypical "Brooklynese," notes that manager Walter Alston (in closeup) isn't worried about the season even though 1955 World Series star Johnny Podres (#45) may get drafted. Announcer notes Alston concentrates on Brooklyn players seen hitting in batting cage: #4 Duke Snider, #39 Roy Campanella, #6 Carl Furillo, #14 Gil Hodges and #2 Randy Jackson. Final closeup of Alston.
Wiley Post readies his Lockheed Vega aircraft named Winnie Mae for an ascent into the stratosphere. Sir Malcolm Campbell drives his Bluebird car at Daytona Beach, Florida. He sets a speed record of 276 miles per hour. Campbell has a nearly bald tire at the end of his speed record drive. From a February 11, 1960 Newsreel recounting events 25 years earlier.
Governor Ronald Reagan and noisy supporters at Republican National Convention in Miami Beach, Florida. One banner reads: Reagan President. Reagan begins to speak to the Convention.
United States Marine helicopter, carrying Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and his daughter, Indira Nehru (Indira Gandhi), lands at the Disneyland heliport in Anaheim, California. Prime Minister Nehru and daughter meets Walt Disney (Walt Elias Disney), who conducts them, personally, on a tour of Disneyland Park. Tomorrowland rides and attractions are seen. Prime Minister Nehru rides beside Walt Disney in a small open train that conveys them past waterfalls high on Matterhorn Mountain, and a recreation of an American Indian encampment. Nehru is seen waving to crowds at the park. Later, (on his 72nd Birthday) the Prime Minister and his daughter are feted at a reception by Mr. Eric Johnston, President of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), and wife Ina Harriet Hughes. Hollywood actors Edward G. Robinson and Charlton Heston are among the persons seen conversing with the Prime Minister.
The Sodium Reactor Experiment nuclear power plant at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory in Southern California. Air blast heat exchangers where hot sodium is cooled at the power plant. Tubes located in the air stream of electrically driven fans in the facility. Tubes where sodium flows directly to the steam plant through the secondary non-radioactive sodium loop. Loops and tubes of the Sodium Reactor Experiment plant. The Southern California Edison Company run electrical generating plant used in conjunction with the Sodium Reactor Experiment. A steam generator inside the electrical generating plant. A steam condenser. Water pipes supplying the steam condenser with water. Induced draught cooling water tower. Conventional turbine generator feeding a step-up transformer. A generator in power plant. Powerlines in Southern California. The Sodium Reactor Experiment nuclear power plant with the Santa Susana Mountains in the background. Scientists working at a control center. Aerial view of the the Sodium Reactor Experiment nuclear power plant.
Various activities of tourists during winter vacations at West Palm Beach railroad station in Florida, United States. Top of a steamer stationed. Smoke comes out of the locomotive. Tourists seated in a restaurant. People enter the station building and cars parked in front of the building. People walk with garden on either side. Other people seated on seats on either side of the path. People seated under a sun umbrella. People move on a gangplank coming out of a ship. Car being moved out of the ship.
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