View of high rise buildings and skyscrapers, subway and highway in New York City from moving vehicle (brief POV shot). Motorists in a tunnel or bridge entrance merge area in New York City. Heavy traffic congestion at the merge, possibly at a tunnel entrance. Many 1960's and 1970's vehicles including cars and trucks jockeying for progress in the slow traffic jam.
View of a low mountain in snow-covered landscape of Norway, during NATO exercise "Arctic Express" in 1970. A NATO soldier, wearing arctic clothing, is seen behind a light machine gun with tripod on its barrel. Another trooper stands on porch of a house, holding an automatic weapon. View of him from the ground. A red Coca cola sign on building behind him. An armored personnel carrier backing up under direction of a NATO soldier. Troops placing white camouflage on vehicles. A soldier moves a vehicle out of a snow revetment and installs a radio antenna. A silver wreath insignia enclosing what looks like "ER" is pinned to his hat. He looks up (probably at a passing aircraft) and then steps into the vehicle, which resembles a land rover with spare tire fastened to its hood.
Italian Alpini troops participating in NATO "Arctic Express" exercise during 1970, in Norway. Dressed in arctic gear, they stand next to an armored personnel carrier. A wooden frame building seen in background. One soldier scans the snow-covered terrain through binoculars. A camouflaged utility vehicle passes on a snow road. Scene shifts to several military vehicles covered with snow. A soldier stands nearby. A tall radio tower and some buildings are visible. sequences moves to views through wind screen of a vehicle moving along a snow-packed road. It passes vehicles parked at side of the road, including: two large canvas-covered trucks, a car, a front loader, a utility vehicle with a trailer,and many more vehicles and trailers.
Canadian troops participating in NATO exercise, "Arctic Express," in 1970, in Norway, set up a light machine gun in the snow. An officer points at a target area and briefs them. Other soldiers remove snow shoes from a truck, and don them. The machine gunners move their weapon and place it in the truck. Four Canadian soldiers, carrying small arms, proceed on snow shoes, along the side of a road, followed by several more.
President Nixon addresses the congress from the speaker's podium in the U.S. Capitol during his 1970 State of the Union address. He speaks about pollution and damage done to the environment by human race. He talks of the need to make reparations for the damage we have done to our land, air, and water. He notes that this is a particular concern of young people, "because they more than we will reap the grim consequences of our failure to act on programs which are needed now, if we are to prevent disaster later." (Foreshadows global warming.) President Nixon proposes a 10 billion dollar clean water program. Congressmen in the house applaud. He discusses the importance of purchasing and preserving open spaces and park lands. He discusses the need to make automobile emissions cleaner. He talks about pricing goods to cover not only their production but also their disposal without damage to the environment. He asks that citizens consider air and water not as free resources but as scarce resources to be protected. The Joint Chiefs of Staff among the Congressmen listen to the speech. Nixon talks about rural areas becoming less populated with migration to urban city centers. He calls on America to become a pioneer in environmental research and leadership. Vice President Spiro Agnew and the Congress Speaker sit on seats behind podium. Nixon concludes his speech and shakes hands with Speaker and other Congressmen who admire and applaud.
Earthquake in Peru, June, 1970. View from aircraft flying low over a beach. A U.S. Air Force Military Airlift Command C-141 aircraft taxiing to park at an airfield, after landing. UH-1 helicopters being offloaded from the aircraft. A column of porters, carrying blue bags of relief supplies on their heads, proceed toward a helicopter. Helicopter taking off and dropping the supplies to people below. View of helicopter with its shadow below where a man is seen walking through a flooded field. Scene shifts to injured person being carried from helicopter on a stretcher. Scenes of destruction. Houses flattened and rubble in streets of Peruvian village.