Newsreel clip on game 7 of baseball's 1962 World Series between San Francisco Giants and New York Yankees. View of 44,000 fans jamming Candlestick Park for this deciding game. In the fifth inning, Yankees' Bill Skowron singles to left field. Clete Boyer's single (fielded by Willie Mays) sends Skowron to third. After a walk, Giant pitcher Jack Sanford gets the Yankees' Tony Kubek to hit into a double play that scores Skowron. View of scoreboard with ad for Taryton Cigarettes. In seventh, the Giants' Willie Mays hits a long drive toward the left-field corner but Yankees' Tom Tresh makes running catch. Next up, Willie McCovey hits a triple to deep center field over Mickey Mantle's head. But Yankee pitcher Ralph Terry strikes out Orlando Cepeda to end the threat. In ninth, with Yankees leading 1-0, Giants' Matty Alou bunts an infield single. Two outs later, Willie Mays approaches batter box, hits a double down the right-field line. Yankee outfielder Roger Maris stops the ball and throws it in, preventing Alou from coming around third to score tying run. Crowd cheers. Terry pitches, Giants' Willie McCovey hits line drive right at Yankees Bobby Richardson, who catches it to end the game and clinch the title for the Yankees. Yankees mob pitcher Terry on field. Announcer notes this is the Yankees' 20th world championship.
Soviet Premiere Leonid Brezhnev visits the United States. Brezhnev and U.S. President Nixon arrive at a helicopter pad in a golf court. U.S. helicopters in the background. The leaders meet Apollo astronauts. The astronauts present plaques to both the leaders. Brezhnev and Nixon move to board a helicopter. The helicopter takes off for El Toro.
U.S. President Richard Nixon holds a press conference in San Clemente. He makes an announcement about the resignation of the Secretary of State William Rogers. Nixon appreciates the quality work and time given by Roger. He addresses Roger as his close friend and advisor. President Nixon appoints Henry Kissinger as the new Secretary of State. Nixon speaks on the well known qualifications of Henry Kissinger to be appointed as the new secretary.
Workmen wearing hard hats rig catwalks for the Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco. The first footways being laid between the towers of the huge new Golden Gate Bridge rising 750 feet above San Francisco Bay.
Spun cables for Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco. Thread-like supports spun from tower to tower of the gigantic bridge as the job of completing the structure proceeds on schedule. Views of the partially completed Golden Gate Bridge over San Francisco Bay. Crewmen aboard an airship. A U.S. Army blimp airship floats in the sky over the Golden Gate Bridge during its construction. Views of cockpit control area inside blimp; interior view of blimp control mechanisms and blimp pilot at work. Aerial views of blimp near Golden Gate Bridge.
A group of young lions at Gay's Lion Farm, El Monte. Lions cut their teeth on rings formed by automobile tires hanging above the reach of the brutes. The lions derive amusement from the arrangement.
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