Troops in line. Navy cadets salute as British Prime Minister Harold McMillan steps down from a plane to discuss the explosive Laotian Crisis in Key West, Florida. He meets United States President John F Kennedy. They walk away from there with navy and army officers. Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko steps out from a car in Washington. He goes to a building with others and meets President Kennedy. Gromyko address press reporters in Russian. Translator translates into English. Press people take notes.
Newsreel clip showing St. Louis Cardinals, Detroit Tigers and New York Giants at spring training before the 1935 baseball season. Cardinal players come on to the field. Manager Frankie Frisch hits ground balls in practice. Shots of star pitchers Paul Dean and Dizzy Dean warming up in front of ramshackle-looking stands and wooden building. Clip shifts to Tigers' camp. Manager Mickey Cochrane talks to pitcher Lynwood "Schoolboy" Rowe, who predicts he will have a better year than 1934. Shots of Rowe throwing pitches to catcher Ray Hayworth. Clip shifts to New York Giants training camp. Pitchers including #12 Freddy Fitzsimmons and #18 Roy Parmalee take part in warmup drill in front of fans. Palm trees in background. Manager Bill Terry hits ground balls in practice. Shortstop Dick Bartell fields a ball. Giant players perform ball tricks. A serious Terry says the addition of new players has improved the club and predicts the Giants will win the National League pennant. (Note: Giants finished third.)
A documentary about Project Breakthrough by the office of Economic Opportunity Community Action Program to teach preschool children language skills in Chicago region (Cook County, Illinois.) Film begins showing various parts of a "Talking typewriter." A very young African American girl is seen talking near the device. A young African American boy is seen pounding the keys of the device. Pamela Jung, one of the project officials, is seen talking into a telephone. She is next seen explaining the talking typewriter to an interviewer, and noting that the children involved perceive it as a game. Another woman official tells the interviewer that the devise is a computerized typewriter, containing a keyboard, voice audio, and screens. A small African American girl is seen entering the booth housing the Talking typewriter. Inside the booth, she tentatively touches some of the keys. As she does so, a voice identifies the keys she actuated (in this case the numbers: 7, 4, ...). Another girl, in the booth, looks all around to see what it contains. One woman, involved in the project, holds a phone as she views a subject in the booth. Camera shows the boy, seen earlier, looking all around the booth and another girl, each trying to find the source of the person talking. A woman in the project explains that the children chosen to participate in the project are from three housing projects in one low income housing area, where poor families are receiving public assistance.
Recovery of building industry in the United States. Views of men hammering nails, plastering, brick laying, cementing, painting and laying false floors during a remodeling program in the United States. View of the industries which have undergone equipment improvement. Large crowds of men who are employed in the remodeling program. Laborers during construction work on streets. People at work in factories and industries and men at work in residential complexes under the National Housing Act of 1935. U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt writing at his desk.
Applications for social security accounts under the Social Security Act,1935 in the United States. Display of a calendar. After the enactment of the Social Security Act, 1935 on 24 November, 1936, workers sign applications to apply for Old Age Retirement Benefits for the first time. A United States Post Office building. A man fills out an application for a social security card, at the post office. Five ways to return filled applications include handing them to a shop foreman, secretary of labor union, letter carrier or depositing them directly at a post office or dropping in local mail box. After returning the application the workers receive Social Security Account Numbers from the Social Security Board. They receive monthly income for life when they retire at the age of 65 years.
View from a high point, possibly a building, of sailors in training at Great Lakes Naval Station, near North Chicago, in Lake County, Illinois, in World War 1. They march from closed three column abreast formation into a spread formation for calisthenics. They follow a leader in performing exercises. Closeup of the exercise leader in action on a platform. About 20 sailors running a race, as others watch from sidelines. Teams of sailors playing a type of race passing a basketball under their legs. Large group of sailors boxing in pairs. Two sailors in a boxing match, encircled by other sailors, and refereed by a Marine officer in shirtsleeves. Change of location to Key West, Florida. Brief glimpse of U.S. marines in military combat maneuvers at a sandy area. As they move forward, an explosive charge ignites nearby.
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