A film about the health programs for people in Candelaria, Colombia. Doctors examine a child as he cries loudly. Child being vaccinated or inoculated against deadly diseases like diphtheria, malaria, tuberculosis. A dentist instruct children about dental health care. Dentist examines the teeth of a school girl. A medic treats a woman's ear. A needle being sterilized. Children walk across an area filled with water due to poor sanitation. People swim in a pool. A girl hangs clothes on a line. Men work with shovels to construct a drainage system.
A film about the health programs for people in Candelaria, Colombia. Doctors at the Universidad Del Valle Faculty of Medicine shake hands with women after instructing them on health care. A doctor shares his experiences with the other doctors. Children play in a park. Girls smile.
The Bogota Conference in Bogota, Colombia. U.S. Secretary of State George C Marshall arrives with other officers. The officers walk towards a building. They enter the building. The officers seated at a desk discuss. The conference in session. The delegate from Nicaragua speaks.
View of Central High School, Little Rock Arkansas. Former student, Jefferson Thomas, one of the nine African American students who integrated the school in 1957, is revisiting the school. View of integrated student track and field team practicing.View of the front of the school. Flashback scenes of the "Little Rock Nine," black students trying to enter Central High School, Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957. Police officer keeping back jeering local students. Racial fighting breaks out among people watching the event, and police try to maintain order. African American students unable to enter school while white students enter and police stand by despite federal school integration orders. Scene returns to 1964 briefly and then back to September 27, 1957, when on orders from President Eisenhower, a company of U.S. Army soldiers marches up takes up positions at the school. They set up barricades, maintain order, and provide armed escort for the nine black students entering school. The nine students enter army station wagons and drive to school accompanied by soldiers in an army jeep.Views of people mingling around the school as U.S. Army soldiers stand amongst them.
Sale of a Patrol frigate to the nation of Colombia, taking place at the Pentagon in Washington DC. SECNAV (Secretary of the Navy) Dan A. Kimball and another U.S. government official has a discussion with a Colombian official. Secretary Kimball and the Colombian official at a table. They go through the sale papers. Both officials sign the papers as the third official watches. They shake hands and complete the sale.
Gregory C. (Greg) Bell, a sophomore at Indiana University, is seen making his record-setting long jump of 26' 7", to win the national collegiate title on June 14, 1957, in Austin Texas. Bell sitting on the ground after his jump. Sequence shifts to the track where Don Bowden, of California, is running well ahead of favored Ron Delany, of Villanova, to win the 800 meter run in 1 minute and 47.2 seconds. (Note: Delany won the 1500 meter run in 4 minutes 6 and a half minutes.) The next day, on June 15, 1957, Bob Gutowski, of Occidental College,California, is seen breaking the World record in the pole vault at a height of 15 feet 9 3/4 inches. He poses momentarily afterwards.