Major Tinker issues orders to pilots Larson and Carr for Rio Grande border patrol in Texas "Big Bend". Curtiss biplane in the field. Pilots stand nearby and discuss. The plane takes off. Series of scenes of Curtiss biplane in air over Rio Grande on border patrol mission between United States and Mexico.
President of the United States Dwight D. Eisenhower congratulates the Little League Baseball Team in Washington D.C. World Champion Little League Baseball Team from Monterrey,Mexico arrive at the White House to meet President Eisenhower. The players carry the Youth Trophy. The President congratulates the winners. The players pose for the photographers.
Sign reads "Holloman Air Force Base Alamogordo New Mexico”. An animated map of New Mexico showing the location of cities such as Alamogordo New Mexico and El Paso, Texas. Map of New Mexico showing Holloman Air Force Base, Alamogordo and Mockingbird Gap. Then the animated map shows the various positions of phototheodolites and tracking radars between Holloman Air Force Base and Mockingbird Gap. Positions of the Beacon Triangulation Stations in New Mexico are also shown on the map.
United States President John F Kennedy addresses General Assembly of the United Nations in New York. View of the United Nations headquarters in New York City. President Kennedy addresses the General Assembly of the United Nations- September 25, 1961. “Every man, woman and child lives under a nuclear sword of Damocles, hanging by the slenderest of threads, capable of being cut at any moment by accident or miscalculation or by madness. The weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us.” President Kennedy said. Dignitaries arrive in Moscow. Dean Rusk, Secretary of State of the United States, Andrei Gromyko, Soviet Foreign Minister and Alec Douglas Home, British Foreign Minister signs Nuclear Test Ban Treaty in Moscow. Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev claps with others on the signing of the Treaty. President John F Kennedy signs Nuclear Test Ban Treaty at White house, Washington DC. Dean Rusk seen with other Senators.
The United States troop transport ship USS Madawaska at a dockyard in New York. The ship departs from New York Harbor. View of USS Madawaska smoke stack whistle blowing. View of Manhattan as USS Madawaska leaves New York. The USS Madawaska in heavy seas and then in the Panama Canal. View of life preserver dockside that reads, "Gatun Locks." A United States Army trainee climbs a coconut tree. A United States soldier drinks water from a coconut.
United States soldiers on Mount Washington in New Hampshire, United States. Quartermaster testing unit soldiers in new cold-bar suits while climbing the mountain. Weather thermometer on Mount Washington. They float around in an icy pool to test the suit. Soldiers taking off their wet suits.
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