Olympic trials in California, United States. Athletes compete to make it to the Rome Olympics as they participate in sprints, pole vault and high jump. Don Bragg sets a new record in pole vault of 15 feet 9 and a quarter inches. In high jump John Thomas sets a new record.
International Boy Scouts at a jamboree in Colorado, United States. President Dwight D. Eisenhower makes a 130 mile trip from Denver as he visits the international Boy Scout jamboree. He meets the Boy Scouts. Nearly 56 thousand Boy Scouts from various countries cheer the President as he moves past them in an open car.
Linda Lewis, a six year old golf prodigy, in Florida. Linda hits balls with a club one by one. Her father, golf comedian and a trick shot expert Chuck Lewis, helps her practice. She and her father kneel down and hit a ball. Chuck Lewis holds a ball in his mouth as he lies down on the course and Linda hits the ball with a club.
Scrap processing operations at Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Maryland, United States, for the World War 2 war effort. Shells piled up. Tanks in a sling as they are being placed for the scrap. Mortars, tanks, cannonballs and a German 42 cm Howitzer being scrapped at the proving grounds. British, German and French tanks are scrapped. Guns and field pieces are also scrapped. A man cuts a barrel of a gun. Old equipment so scrapped saves on steel, coal, man power and time.
International exchange of CAP (Civil Air Patrol) cadets in Virginia, United States. A Seabee aircraft with a sign on it that reads 'University of Illinois'. A man checks the gasoline in the plane at the University of Illinois Willard airport (Tolono Township, IL, USA). A gasoline truck pulls up near the plane. A stationary aircraft on a flight line. Foreign CAP cadets get into the cockpit of the Seabee aircraft and work on the controls. Aircraft lined up. Cadets climb into the cockpit of a Beechcraft Bonanza aircraft. The engine runs and the aircraft taxis. A hangar in the background. Foreign cadets get into the cockpit of a liaison aircraft. An Italian cadet gets into a cockpit. Cadets climb up the cockpit of Navion aircraft. The aircraft taxis along. Cadets enter other liaison aircraft.
Joint Task Force exercise at Eglin Air Base in Florida, United States. United States Psychological Operations team standing by a jeep at the base. Officers broadcast over loudspeakers mounted on the jeep. An officer speaks into a microphone. Soldiers of Joint Task Force enter a mock village during the exercise. Cartridges and bags on shoulders of the soldiers. Views of soldier's feet and shadows of them walking. Some carry belts of ammunition over their shoulders. Soldiers acting as villagers taunt the troops in a village. Soldiers escort the mock villagers away.
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