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.
The Macagua Dam, (also known as the Antonio José de Sucre) during construction onthe Caroní River in Ciudad Guayana, Bolívar State, Venezuela. A waterfall in the region. The hydroelectric dam under construction in Venezuela. River flowing through jungle region. Infrastructure at the dam site. Large earth moving trucks carrying loads of dirt away during excavation. A man stands at the construction site. Men at work building the dam. A man welds a part of a machine.
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.
Wernher Von Braun, a German-born American aerospace engineer and space architect, gives a recorded lecture in German on space launch vehicles. On his table are models such as the model of the Juno II space launch vehicle. In his lecture, Dr. Wernher Von Braun discusses the facets of space flight, such as the capabilities of the Juno II and how to achieve escape velocity in launching. After Dr. Wernher Von Braun ends his lecture, a diagram depicting the Juno II launch (written in English) is revealed. A blackboard with notes, written in English, about launching velocity can be seen.
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