A fountain in the center of a busy street in Saigon,Vietnam. Saigon City Hall with a large photo of Premier Ngo Dinh Diem over the front entrance.Few women mongers with their baskets sit on pavement. A hawker's stall in background.
Cars moving through street during heavy rain in Saigon,Vietnam. A native paddles a three wheel cart through the rain.Few natives take shelter under shops on a pavement.
North American experimental unmanned X-10 aircraft sitting on runway at Edwards Air Force Base, California, United States. It displays conventional tricycle landing gear, canard at nose, and twin tail. It is powered by two Westinghouse J-40 turbojet engines, whose intakes are visible on both sides of the fuselage. Aircraft seen during computer-controlled takeoff roll with fairly steep nose attitude. View of it breaking ground, in about 20 degree nose up attitude, with landing gear still extended. Cloud of dust left on ground behind the aircraft. The X-10 in flight, cleaned up, with gear retracted. A chase plane seen below and behind, briefly. The X-10 coming in for landing with landing gear extended. It touches down in nose high attitude, creating dust trail and slowly lowers to have nose gear contact ground, and a drag chute deployed.
U.S. Air Force, North American X-10, experimental aircraft being towed by a tug, at Edwards Air Force Base, California, United States. Tow tug moves the aircraft in a circle, allowing views from all sides. Of particular note is lack of a cockpit (the aircraft is unmanned), and the presence of a canard at the nose of the aircraft. View of aircraft on takeoff roll, in nose high attitude, raising a dust cloud, as it accelerates. View of X-10, cruising aloft, with canard and landing gear retracted. The minimal delta wing is visible from below. The aircraft, in nose high attitude, with landing gear extended, in flight and then cleaned up and cruising, again.
Edgar Faure, President of the French Council of Ministers, arrives at the Élysée Palace (55 Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, 75008 Paris, France). He steps from his car and walks up the steps of the building. Cameramen photograph him. The occasion is the Government's decision to dissolve the French National Assembly and proceed to quick elections. A clock shows hands approaching midnight. President Faure is accosted by numerous members of the press as he leaves the building.
Aerial views from aircraft flying over McMurdo Sound in Antarctica. Convair 340 aircraft parked in blowing snow. Three men, in parkas, walk in blowing snow. A D-8 Weasel tractor backing up as men shovel snow in its path. Two geologists examine a piece of rock through a magnifying glass. A man looks through a microscope. A man in heavy parka and cold weather gear, walks on snow. Two meterolologists release and track a weather balloon. A man feeds penguins.
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