A modern automated station wagon automobile with many new features is shown in Chicago. It is a 1956 Chrysler Plymouth Plainsman, designed by David Scott and built by Ghia as an experimental Station Wagon. The car displays a Texas longhorn cattle emblem. Various modern and inventive features and gadgets of the car are shown, such as a tail light that moves forward to reveal the gas tank filling tube, a powered rear door, a powered retracting step for children to enter the rear of the car, power folding seats, and unique taillight design. A woman with children stands beside the car. The boy and girl children climb up in the back of the car and sit facing toward the back. The car drives away and the children smile as the automatic rear window closes.
Featherweight World Championship Fight in Palace of Sports, Paris,France. Algerian Cherif Hamia boxing against Nigerian Hogan (Kid) Bassey. Hamia knocks Bassey down for the count of eight. But Bassey comes back strong and the referee has to stop the fight. Kid Bassey is the winner and new World Champion.
A prison camp for Allied airmen at Dulag-Luft near Wetzlar, Germany. Views of German officers who ran the prison camp in World War II. Allied prisoners of war enter wooden building marked "staged Door Canteen". Liberated prisoners shake hands with some of the U.S. soldiers who were captured in the town. Many prisoners wearing bandages and on crutches. Plane fly over camp area. Prison camp, group of liberated prisoners wave and smile in front of signs indicating distances to London, New York and others.
Viet Minh military training in large courtyard of a building. Trainees march and perform drill maneuvers. Large numbers of trainees parade, as band plays and spectators watch from sidewalk and from windows of building. A woman sews new badge on epaulet of graduate's uniform.
Koreans mobilizing during the Korean War. Civilians walk aside road. Some military recruits shouldering rifles and civilians walk aside road. Soldiers standing. Demonstrators in street carrying banners. Large contingent of new recruits enters Army training facility.
The battle for democracy in El Salvador. A large crowd gathers for the new constitution. Citizens wearing caps listens to a man addressing. A man paints a Dominican flag on a tree. The crowd waves the Dominican flag. A man on a ladder. A sign: Vota Asi. A bus on a road. Civilians stand along with the Dominican flag. A sign in Spanish reads 'Tu Derecho A Vivir En Paz Decidelo Tu Con Tu Voto'. (Your right to live In peace. Decide it with your vote.). People go for their work in a market. Men reading newspaper. A man states that the problem in democracy of Salvador is economy. A woman says that the problem is money. Trucks and boats. A soldier stands at a river bank. Sacks of 'Inazucar'. Men carry sacks. A woman speaks about unemployment. A bullock cart, a woman adds fertilizers in the field. Land reform is required for better education, health and increase in food production. Views of men and children. People gather for an election campaign. Jose Naplean Duarte, Christian Democratic Party, addresses the throng. People applaud after his speech. Roberto D. Aubuisson, National Republican Alliance, delivers a speech. Francisco Jose Guerrero, National Conciliation Party, is greeted. A sign: 'Bienvenidos Chachi Y Pio' on a banner. Jose Guerrero speaks about his campaign for social justice. Roberto Escobar Garcia, Authentic Institutional Salvadorian Party is greeted by people. They shout paisa as they walk on a street. Francisco Quinonez Avila, Popular Salvadorian Party stands on a stage as a part of the voting campaign. Signs: Vota PPS and Morazan. Rene Fortin Magana, Democratic Action, speaks in the voting campaign. A soldier fires machine guns. Guerilla militant soldiers seen trying to recruit support from civilians to overthrow the government and bypass elections. A group of guerilla soldiers are seen with bodies of several soldiers of the government of El Salvador that they killed. Campaign banners and signs seen on poles in El Salvador advocating various candidates. A citizen is interviewed about his opinion on the elections.
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