Little League Baseball Series in Williamsport Pennsylvania. Crowd in the stand cheers. Season's round-robin finale in progress. The Monterrey Mexico team wins over the La Mesa California team as Monterrey pitcher Angel Macias has a good game.
"The Eisenhower Story": A pre-election pro-Eisenhower propaganda film designed to highlight Eisenhower's qualifications for reelection as President in the 1956 election. Factory whistle blows and men entering a factory. Car chassis factory assembly line. Locomotive engineer blows train whistle and railroad locomotive with cultivators on a flat bed car. Cultivators harvesting grain. Woman carries groceries from shop to a 1950's sedan car parked on street. View of 1950's automobile highway traffic and aerial view of highways being built under his plans for highway construction and road expansion. View of Eisenhower at swearing in ceremony during his inauguration as President in 1952. In his speech, Eisenhower emphasizes that, "we stand ready to engage with any and all others in joint efforts to remove the causes of mutual fear and distrust among nations..." Newspaper headline 'Korean Truce Signed' at time of armistice during Korean War. American troops disembark ship and greet family. Secretary of State Dulles talking with German chancellor Konrad Adenauer. Secretary John Dulles seen also with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Eisenhower and Churchill at Geneva conference, along with Soviet leader Khrushchev and Marshal Nikolai Bulganin. Eisenhower speaks before United Nations about efforts to form an "atom pool." He notes United States "determination to help solve the fearful atomic dilemma...." Newspaper headlines 'Eisenhower Signs Sea Way Bill'. Construction of Saint Lawrence Seaway. 'Budget' and 'tax cuts' news in newspapers, including headline, "White House ends all wage controls...." Farmer plows field with tractor. Construction of new buildings and highway construction through Eisenhower programs. Views of the newly established Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Workers filing cards in giant room of file drawers and cabinets. Nurse draws vaccine into syringe. Children are vaccinated (likely polio vaccine). President Eisenhower meets leaders from different countries at White House, including England's Queen Mother and King Paul, Queen Frederica of Greece, and Prime Minister St-Laurent of Canada. Eisenhower at press conference discussing disarmament notes importance of the "elimination of opportunity of surprise attack." View of shore towers and listening platforms and missiles rising on platforms to protect America from attacks. First nuclear submarine, the USS Nautilus (SSN-571 ) launched on January 21, 1954 by Mrs. Mamie Eisenhower in Connecticut. Plane taking off from aircraft carrier USS Forrestal (CV-59) while underway at sea. Formation of Northrop F-89 Scorpion aircraft in flight.
Twenty firemen and three policemen injured by fire and explosion in a tire and battery shop. Firemen blown through a wall in the blast. Policemen and firemen gather outside the ruined shop. Injured men helped into an ambulance. Ambulance pulls away.
Skiers arrive, one of them with Australian flag. Skiers jump from the hill. John Risnes of Norway walks away with top honors, with a leap of 195 feet at the North Ski Club's mid-winter jump. Men with surfboards surf in the sea.
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.
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