USS Independence (CV-62) is christened at the Brooklyn Navy Yard in New York. Flags of the United States on the ship. People gather for the christening. Decorated USS Independence at the dock.
A full scale model of Sputnik III is exhibited at Moscow's Industrial Fair in Moscow, Russia. A big fountain outside the exhibition venue. People arrive at the exhibition. Replica of Sputnik III exhibited. A West German crop industry representative observes the full scale model of the space satellite.
Sam Snead wins the Dallas Open professional golf tournament in Texas. The players include John McMullin, Julius Boros and Gary Player. Sam birdies the first hole in a sudden death struggle. Players stroke the ball and hole it in. A crowd at the golf course watches the match.
A film based on the Plum Island Animal Disease Center( PIADC ) off Long Island, New York. Commuters employed with the U.S. State Department of Agriculture board a ferry in Long Island. Animated map highlights the PIADC established for study of foreign animal diseases. The map shows locations of laboratory, dock area, administrative area, animal holding area and research buildings. Research units in the research building. Security fences around the building. The coast of Plum Island showing installations.
Plum Island Animal Disease Center in Long Island, New York which is dedicated to study of animal diseases. Visitors and employees of the United States Department of Agriculture board a ferry in Long Island and head for Plum Island. View of dock as ferry approaches. A sign reads 'U.S.D.A. Plum Island Animal Disease Laboratory'. Personnel pass the ferry dock area to enter the guarded gates on Plum Island. Regular employees show passes to enter. The personnel leave the bus used for transportation from the gates to the working area. The employees after entering the building divide into three groups and head for three different locker rooms. Doors of the locker rooms painted red. The employees get rid of their belongings and clothes and proceed through a turnstile to the next locker room to put on a complete set of laboratory clothing. They enter a laboratory to carry out tests.
A film based on the Plum Island Animal Disease Center in Long Island, New York which is dedicated to study of foreign animal diseases. Animated map of the United States of America depicts the New England region of the U.S. affected with foot and mouth disease of animals during year 1870 and Mexico and Canada affected by epizootics in 1946 and 1952 respectively. A technician stores animal foot and mouth disease virus in a laboratory freezer.