Skiers practice alpine slalom skiing in Switzerland. One hundred top skiers from 14 countries prepare for the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley, California. Athlete skiing on heavy snow. A skier tackling 72 gates in a 200-foot drop on a savagely difficult slalom course. Spectators watch the slalom skiing. More athletes tackle gates on slalom course. An athlete slips on slalom course. Snow is falling as a skier glides down the slalom slope and hairpin turns.
Two United States Women’s Army Corps (WAC) personnel (Corporal Mary B. McGillicudy of San Francisco, California and Private Barbara Brophy of Salem, Massachusetts) and Private Merrit Rawley (Great Barrington, Massachusetts) of the United States Army walking into marshalling yards in Foggia, Italy during World War II. A smokestack and piles of rubble are seen in the background. The WAC personnel and private walk over train tracks. View of completely demolished boxcar. The soldier helps the two WAC personnel to climb into an abandoned railcar. The two WAC personnel and enlisted man peer through windows of train. The trio inspects train wreckage. Corporal Mary B. McGillicudy and Private Barbara Brophy of the WAC smiling. Private Merrit Rawley stands in front of abandoned Ferrovie dello Stato (Italian state railways) trains.
Aerial view of the St. Mary of the Assumption (N Wabash Ave & E Madison St, Chicago, IL 60602, USA) in Chicago. A Roman Catholic priest kneels and prays before the altar. He performs religious mass in the church. The priest blesses people in the church with holy water.
United States Army Air Corps Alaska Flight Project begins in Washington DC. YB-10 bomber (tail number 151) takes off from Patterson Field, Ohio, heading for Washington, DC, the official starting point for the operation. A few Martin YB-10 aircraft taxiing at Bolling Field, Washington, DC (20 MacDill Blvd SE, Washington, DC 20032, USA). Several Martin YB-10 bombers parked in a line, with ground crews attending them. Chief of the United States Air Corps, General Benjamin Delahauf Foulois; United States Assistant Secretary of War Harry Woodring and Commander of the Alaska Flight, Colonel Henry H. Arnold, stand along with the Alaska Flight pilots, in front of a project airplane, number 143, painted with the project logo: an eagle perched over a map of Alaska. Secretary Woodring meets and shakes hands with the pilots.
President of Cuba Dr.Ramon Grau San Martin with cabinet officials at the Presidential Palace in Havana, Cuba. A group of Cuban Government officials seated and standing in two rows pose for photograph. Dr.Ramon Grau San Martin, President of Cuba, who is forced to resign in a crisis, seated with other officials on Terraza Norte (North Terrace) of the Presidential Palace on Avenida de las Misiones in Havana. (Among the cabinet is Secretary of Interior, Dr. Antonio [Tony] Guiteras --born in Philadelphia, USA.) A large crowd gathered outside. Vehicles among the crowd. Government officials climb up the stairs and enter the building. Guards stand on either side of the stairs. The officials inside the building. The officials on North Terrace of the Presidential Palace and a large crowd outside.
Well-dressed black people waiting at a public school near a Tennessee administration emergency relief camp. Some Some of them are chatting as they wait outside the building.
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