Former President Truman speaks before Reserve Officers Association in Philadelphia. Sign before bank of microphones reads 'Reserves Ask Only The Right To Be Ready'. Truman warns against serious cuts in defense appropriations during the tense world situation. Crowd applauds.
President Eisenhower signs a bill that sends million tons of surplus wheat to famine stricken Pakistan. Sign reads 'Wheat for Pakistan from the US'. Grains poured out into containers aboard a ship at Baltimore. Church organization men and 4-H clubs collect dried milk for needy children of the world. Women and children drink milk.
'Fashions on the Campus' shows two young women and a young men seated on a wall at the Avon Old Farms school in Avon, Connecticut. A young woman wears a "hoodwinker" with tassle on hood matching tassles at neckline. Two women with hoods in a room of the Avon Old Farms school. A woman wears a tweed dress, having coffee with a young man. She unbuttons her jacket and shows the man. Women pose in tweed outfits.
Joyland Amusement park at Wichita. School children get on a toy train which leads to the school. Train crosses a bridge. Children enter the school.
Native American Indian dancers including some youth perform at a 3 day Jamboree and rodeo event in Pendleton , Oregon. Native American Indian men and women arrive on horseback at Pendleton Rodeo. They are dressed in traditional Indian regalia. Crowd cheers in stand as rodeo is underway. Cowboys ride bucking horses. Cowboy Joe Chase emerges from stable 3 riding famous horse named War Paint. Chase falls to the ground, "tossed like salad" in the words of the narrator. A cowboy jumps from a horse to a bull and wrestles the bull to the ground.
Fashion show presented in the guise of newly weds embarking on the liner SS United States for a honeymoon. The husband helps his bride remove her coat. They kiss each other and drink. They host a cocktail party. A model (ostensibly a Bridesmaid) and other "bridesmaids" join the couple and model fashions from the Bride's trousseau. The fashions are by designer Carol King and were first seen when worn by actress Janet Leigh in the motion picture, "Walking my Baby back Home."
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