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.
The city of Paris. Boats underway in the Seine River. The Eiffel tower on the river bank. View through the front of a train as a man drives it. View of buildings, train tracks, industries, clock tower, and River Seine from the train. People stand in line at the station. The train enters a tunnel.
U.S. President Dwight D Eisdenhower visits Spain. U.S. Army H-34 helicopter taxis on the runway at Torrejon Air Force Base in Marid, bringing President Eisenhower and Spanish General Francisco Franco. The chopper parks in front of the President's plane. General Franco and Eisenhower halt before a large group. The President bows his head during the salute. U.S. and Spanish troops lined up. President Eisenhower gives a farewell speech at the AFB. A large crowd of Spanish officers surround the President. The President stands at the top of the ramp to the aircraft waving to the large crowd as he prepares to leaves. He dons his hat and steps into the plane. The plane taking off and airborne.
A female WAAC (Women's Army Auxiliary Corps) presents 'By Request' for the Army Navy Screen Magazine' in the United States during World War II. She reads out a request for music from Ameriacn soldiers in the Pacific Theater. The 'GI Jive' section presented by Jill. She talks to the GIs, plays a jive tune for them and asks them to keep writing in. Pictures, sketches, letters, photographs and other memorabilia sent by GIs from various war fronts. Jive tune plays in the background.
Aerial views of the U.S. Air Force Strategic Air Command Headquarters at Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska. Atlas - the first operational intercontinental ballistic missile, erected in front of the building. USAF written on the missile. Cars parked near the building. Air Force personnel near the missile.
Space research from the ground with a Scatter Radar. National Bureau of Standards laboratories in Boulder, Colorado. The Central Radio Propogation Laboratory. Cars parked outside. Hills in the background. Dr. Kenneth Bowles and a colleague work on a formula. Animation: Incoherent scatter of radio waves by electrons in the ionosphere. Transmission of powerful pulsed radio signal in a narrow beam. The beam penetrates the ionosphere and excites the free electrons. The scatter a weak signal which is detected by a sensitive antenna, and the signal comes back to Earth. Remaining portions of a sensitive antenna at the pioneering field site in Havana, Illinois. Dr. Ken Bowles and other scientists decide on a site. Animation: The magnetic equator and lines of the magnetic field. Pulsed radar signals and lines of force on the monitor. Animation: Chemical composition of the Earth's atmospheric gases. The scientists decide on Lima in Peru, due to its proximity to the magnetic equator and U.S. Lima, Peru: Buildings, guards, churches, plazas and boulevards in Lima including the Government Palace in Lima with guards in front, the Catedral de Lima (Catheral of Lima) and the Plaza Mayor de Lima . Construction work in Lima. Cars on a market street. People on the sidewalk. Shipping and port facilities in Callao, Peru. Workers unload goods. People board a Braniff International aircraft. Housing facility in the Lima suburb of Miraflores.
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