A track race in Big Springs, Texas. Dave Sime and Bobby Morrow meet in a contest. Sime takes advantage on Morrow and wins the race by a foot and a half. Gauge of an apparatus shows 20 miles per hour wind. Runners stand at the starting line. The runners run on the track. Dave Sime with a man.
Arnold Palmer of Latrobe, Pennsylvania defeats the old masters in 22nd Annual Masters Golf Championship in Augusta, Georgia. Red Hopkins and Douglas Michael Ford contest with Palmer. A crowd in the court watches the match.
A crowd greets French General Charles de Gaulle in Algiers, showering his motorcade with ticker tape. views of motorcade from various locations, including high in an overlooking building. Cheering crowds jam the roadside. A formation of French warplane aircraft is seen flying overhead. A little girl kisses De Gaulle on the cheeks. De Gaulle walks with officials up a hill and then speaks from a portico of the Government General building, to an audience of thousands jammed shoulder-to-shoulder in the Place du Forum with some perched atop a monument. De Gaulle returns to his open car, as a cordon of French military hold the crowd back.
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.