Former President Dwight D Eisenhower visits a church on his birthday in Washington DC. He arrives with his wife on his 77th birthday for the church cornerstone ceremony and a party. People gather in the church to celebrate the party. President cuts the cake.
Hindus gather to celebrate the annual festival of 'Dussehra' in India. Dussehra is the legendary religious triumph of good over evil according to the Hindus. They parade with bands. They burn the statue of Ravana which represents the burning of evil.
Children participate in the Hula-hoop Championship in New York. The final is organized in the Central park. People gather to watch the competition. Children perform their skills on the stage. They move the hoops around their body to show their skills.
College football game between University of Southern California and Notre Dame in South Bend. People gather in large numbers to watch the game. Scenes during the game and views of spectators and fans cheering. USC beats Notre Dame by 24-7.
The 78th Annual Pardubice Steeplechase organized in Czechoslovakia. 26 horses participate in the championship. A large crowd gathers to watch the match. The jockeys ride the horses on the race course. People watch them. Horses jump off the obstacles. Many horses fall down while jumping.
Excerpt from film entitled "Counterattack- Marine Air Ground Team," about U.S. Marines in the Vietnam War. Marines are seen walking cautiously across irrigation ditches in cultivated region of South Vietnam. Scene shifts to one marine looking down at a hole where smoke is rising at the base of a berm. Vietnamese families evacuating their village where marines are burning houses and huts. View from riverbank strung with barbed wire, where marines are relaxing while gunfire is heard and black smoke rises from fires burning across the river. Next, a city is seen jammed with Vietnamese refugees with their belongings (some being assisted by ARVN soldiers) making their way through the crowds. A fallen civilian seen on the ground, victim of the Viet Cong (VC). Buildings and places of worship severely damaged by the VC. A bearded old Vietnamese man wearing a non la (conical hat) and smoking a cigarette, is questioned by a U.S. soldier. (Narrator says civilians are reluctant to say much for fear of reprisals.) Marines walking slowly through a village, and then through areas of trees and brush, open areas, and dense jungle. View of underbelly of a U.S. jet fighter bomber in flight over water, carrying two BLU-10 250 lb Napalm Bombs. A Marine A-4 Skyhawk jet aircraft dives down and drops a bomb that explodes with large fireball and black smoke. Closeup of an A-4 in flight. View of pilot in cockpit and sound of conversation with ground controllers. Pilot asks if there are any more requests from the "grunts." Anachronistic Inserted images of two Marine F-4 aircraft from VMFA 232 (Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 232). They display "Red Devil" insignia on their sides. (They flew ground support in F-4s from Chu Lai Air base, Vietnam, commencing 1969.) View shifts to Marines "Grunts" in sandy area, with one communicating by radio. Next, a jet fighter bomber swoops down and unloads bombs that explode in succession on the ground. Marines in heavily sandbagged trenches. A jet fighter flies low overhead at very high speed. Another succession of bomb bursts is seen. Sea-going Marines arrive and exit Boeing CH-46 Sea Knight helicopters, at landing zone. Views of Marines exiting the choppers and then a variety of views of CH-46s in flight. Closeup of one in flight. View of interior, with a squad of Marines, inside, in battle gear. CH-46s landing and taking off.