Cargo with attached to olive green parachutes descending into Khe Sanh drop zone during the Vietnam War. Three United States Marines packing a cargo parachute into a bag. "REED" is written on the helmet of one of them. An African American Marines untangle parachute lines and then pack cargo parachute into bag. Marines packing camouflage parachutes. A Marine moves a cargo crate using a rough terrain forklift. A Marine smoking a cigarette helps as the forklift lifts piles crates together.
The Ming Tombs in Beijing, China. Stone elephants adorn the Spirit Way, the road leading to the Ming Tombs. A gate at the Ming Tombs. A white man in sunglasses walks in front of The Soul Tower at Changling Tomb. Chinese men in white shirts stand in front of the Chang Ling Ming tomb A man throws trash into a wooden trash bin. Shirtless laborers wearing coolie hats lift a stone block at a reservoir construction site near the tombs. Woman and man construction workers push wheelbarrows as others labor in the background. Men tamping down soil using a primitive compactor. Forms for a concrete arched bridge. A Chinese laborer smiles. A soldier in uniform worker laughs during the Great Leap Forward.
Chinese farmers plowing a field at a commune north of Beijing. The farmers digging furrows deeper with shovels. "Plow deep to bury the American aggressor is the slogan,” says the narrator. Carpenters sawing wood outdoors. A man strips bark from lumber using a draw shave tool. Workers repairing roof of commune building. Chinese women and children picking vegetables, harvesting crops. Farmers examine heads of Chinese Cabbage. A blind folded donkey powers an irrigation pump. Chinese woman farmers threshing millet with help from children. Harvested corn hanging on poles and husked corn in baskets. “Their corn is very poor, some of it is fairly good.” says the narrator.
Iranian soldiers firing mortars and machine guns during a public demonstration. Iranian civilians and children watch a weapons demonstration by the Iranian Army. An Iranian Army officer uses the telephone to communicate orders to soldiers. Soldiers fire mortars on command. Soldiers in desert foxholes firing mortars. A general watch the demonstration from a pair of binoculars. Night shots, antiaircraft guns firing tracers into mountainside. Explosion on base of a mountain. An Iranian girl watches the demonstration with her family. Iranian soldiers firing with machine guns. Three soldiers demonstrate a Browning M1919 machine gun. Anti-aircraft guns fires at base of a mountain. Soldiers firing with Browning machine guns in Iran. More explosions at the base of a mountain. A soldier firing with rifle. Antiaircraft guns firing tracers into mountainside at night. Tracer ammunition flash as they are fired into the mountainside.
Infant receives medical care in Iran. An Iranian woman brings her baby into the hospital for physical examination. Iranian woman holds her baby while waiting outside a clinic. A nurse receptionist sits behind a desk in front of the woman. Posters are on display behind the woman. Nurse writing notes on her desk. Baby bottle on the nurse’s desk. Woman gives her baby a toy. The woman and her child are taken to a room. A nurse lays the baby down. Nurse puts infant on baby scale. Another nurse writes notes taken from baby’s measurements. The mother watches nurses measure her child. Nurse takes the mother and her child to a doctor. The nurse hands over patient record to the doctor. Nurse takes the baby to the examination table. The doctor examining baby. Doctor listens to baby’s heartbeat using stethoscope.
United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower speaks to reporters during his Press Conference at the White House. Journalists listen to speech. President Eisenhower listens to a reporter’s question. President Eisenhower reasserted his longstanding insistence on advance progress as a pre-condition to a Summit meeting. He said that Soviet leader Nikita S. Khrushchev could not force him by "bluff" or "blackmail" to attend unless there were grounds for believing that "real measures can be discussed profitably by all of us".
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