Tugs tow Phoenix units for making an artificial harbor at Normandy beachhead in France during World War II. Phoenix (reinforced concrete caisson) units are towed. Tugs towing Phoenix units. A ship underway. The Phoenix units being towed to a position for sinking. Ships underway. Gun crew at stations on Phoenix units. Barrage balloons flying in the background. Landing Ship Tanks approach a beach. An LST approaches the beach. Other ships in the background.
Senator Vandenberg talks about the U.S. relations with Soviet Russia. Demanding that this nation be firm in its dealings with foreign powers, he says our foreign policy must be one which 'says what it means and means what it says'.
American people in the 1966 elections choose governors, senators, and congressman. Governor George W. Romney wins the elections in Michigan. He smiles after his victory. Charles Percy wins in Illinois. Edward Brooke wins elections in Massachusetts as the first African American Senator ever in the U.S. history. Governor Nelson Rockefeller wins for his third term as the governor of New York. Hollywood actor Ronald Reagan after winning elections in California addresses an assembly. Mrs. Lurleen Wallace after winning the elections of Alabama waves towards people along with her husband, former Governor Wallace. Oath taking of new senators and governors at an official ceremony as President Lyndon Johnson watches.
Exterior of an industrial plant shows a lake. Glimpse of skyscrapers. Women work at typewriters. in an office building. Aerial view of a Northeast University. The Low Library at Columbia University, New York City (designed by McKim,Mead & White). A modern building labeled "Research." Women at work in a publishing house, where machines print and assemble books. Rockefeller Center in New York City. Statue of Prometheus, reclining, is visible in sunken plaza. Camera pans up the RCA Building at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in background.
Dedication of the William A. Shea Municipal Stadium (Shea Stadium) in New York. Aerial view of Shea Stadium (123–01 Roosevelt Avenue Flushing, Queens, New York) in Flushing Meadow, New York. Mayor Robert Wagner and New York Mets manager Casey Stengel dedicate the stadium. Journalists take photographs during the dedication event. Urban planner Robert Moses speaks in front of a podium. William Shea points out the features of the new stadium. A huge crowd cheers in the spectator's stand. Mayor Wagner along with other dignitaries poses for the camera.
Post-war subway condtruction in Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union. Brief view of cars driving along street, followed by scenes of subway workers in tunnel, 165 feet below the surface. The tunnel ceiling and walls are reinforced by shoring structures. A power shovel dumps dug out rock and earth into an open rail car where a worker packs it with a long-handled tool. Drillers at the tunnel face use pneumatic tools to dig through sedimentary layers of material. A man and woman push a rail car full of diggings through the tunnel. A surveyor uses a transit suspended from the ceiling by a wire. A woman fastens a thin rope to a light cable. Back at the face of the excavation, drillers stop and one calls out to others drilling from the opposite end (unseen). The drillers then commence again, and break through the remaining wall separating the two ends of the tunnel. Drillers from the opposite sides greet one another and celebrate the completion of this 12 mile segment of the subway tunnel.
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