U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon visits South Vietnam. Vietnamese Guard of Honor at an airport as a Military Air Transport C-121, Constelletion airplane lands. Vice-President Richard Nixon and his wife Patricia emerge from the airplane and are greeted by Vietnamese officials and Vietnamese girls with flowers. Vietnamese officials in white suits salute. Nixon in front of a USIS microphone. People assembled with banners. Nixon on a walkabout with civilians receives flowers. A motorcade with outriders arrives at a government building. Vietnamese officials stand and salute on the steps of the building. Interiors of the building show Nixon seated on a small platform listening to a speech by a Vietnamese official.
U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon visits South Vietnam. Exteriors of a government building show Nixon and U.S. Army Lieutenant General John W. O'Daniel standing with Vietnamese officials in white suits. Civilians gathered holding banners. A large parade of South Vietnamese military units takes place, led by a marching band. Nixon stands with President of South Vietnam Ngo Dinh Diem. Vice-President Nixon makes a brief statement into the microphone. He is followed by Colonel Nguyen Van Y, who also makes brief remarks. President Diem and Vice-President Nixon stand together and are joined by U.S. Ambassador Fritz Nolting. Crowd applauds and photographers take pictures from steps of the building.
U.S. 35th air policemen parked outside U.S. Army FEAF (Far East Air Forces) headquarters in Tokyo. American soldiers emerge from the FEAF headquarters building and line up with their gear on sidewalk across the street. It is raining. An officer reads orders to the soldiers and they get into a truck. An air police jeep backs up. The jeep and the truck pull away. View of top of the building, from which the United Nations and U.S. flags fly.
Upshot-Knothole Annie atomic bomb test in Nevada, United States. A sign board reads: 'US Atomic Energy Commission Nevada Proving Ground Mercury, Nevada'. A guard stands near the board. Men gather at the Nevada Test Site. Cars and houses in the area to determine their ability to withstand blast wave and radiation. Mannequins in a car and in replicas of houses. Soldiers huddle in trenches two miles away from the explosion area. Cameramen adjust their cameras to record the explosion. The atomic bomb explodes. A mushroom cloud is formed. People wearing goggles for eye protection are seen as they watch the explosion. Governor of California Earl Warren arrives at the explosion site. Personnel with Geiger counter take measurements near the bombing site later.
United States soldiers on Mount Washington in New Hampshire, United States. Quartermaster testing unit soldiers in new cold-bar suits while climbing the mountain. Weather thermometer on Mount Washington. They float around in an icy pool to test the suit. Soldiers taking off their wet suits.
Marshal Josip Broz Tito of Yugoslavia arrives in the United Kingdom. Tito disembarks from his yacht Galeb (Seagull) to a smaller ship on the Thames River. He is greeted by Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Foreign Minister Anthony Eden. Explosion of a photographer’s magnesium flare near 10 Downing Street. Churchill and Tito inside 10 Downing Street. They pose and shake hands.
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