Election of the Governor of California. Senator William Fife Knowland announces his candidacy for the office of the Governor of California. Governor Goodwin Knight prepares for the election as a senator thus beginning a political controversy. Attorney General Edmund Brown at his office as he reads a newspaper.
Film 'Discovery in the Deep' shows excavations by deep sea research and scientific drilling vessel, The Glomar Challenger. Ship sails on water surface. Hot molten lava flows, rough seas. Animation of world map shows distribution of continents. North America and Africa as one land mass. Snow covered peaks. Doctor M N A Peterson, Scripps Institution of Oceanography talks about the research. Animation shows ridges under water surface.
Documentary. Numerous U.S. Air Force aircraft in operation, including: F-100s; B-47s; B-52s; F-106s; and F-105s. U.S Air Force alert crews run from barracks in response to Klaxon horn signal. They board their aircraft in snow. An F-100 makes takeoff with rocket boost. F-100s fire rockets. Wide variety of rockets fired from USAF aircraft. A Saturn rocket launch.
Animation: NORAD (North American Aerospace Defense Command) using SAGE (Semi-Automatic Ground Environment) directed Bomarc IM-99B missiles to repel an attack by hostile aircraft. General Laurence Kuter and other officials in the NORAD control room. They look at screens and speak over phone. Four F-102A aircraft in flight. NORAD official operates controls and speaks over mouth piece. General Laurence Kuter speaks with other officials. Bomarc IM-99B at launch pad.
A man stands by a backyard fallout shelter. He lifts a slab and goes inside.Two men standing near the shelter demonstrate how a geiger counter would be used to determine when it would be safe to exit the shelter. Interior of the fallout shelter is shown. The door that seals the shelter is shown with its air filter. Officials converse with each other standing next to the fallout shelter.
About 25 cyclists gather loosely at starting point of race, on stone street with trolley tracks in it. They ride downhill on a concrete highway, escorted by motorcycle police and several automobiles. At the finish line in the city, spectators line both sides of the course, set along edge of a main street. A trolley car sits in center of street, and cars fill the opposite lane from the race. (The cars have no rear license plates.) The motorcycle police lead two finalists to the finish line, racing neck-to-neck. A trophy is presented to the winner.
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