Official visit to a GAZ car factory in the Soviet Union by Yugoslavian President and Marshal Josip Broz Tito, hosted by Soviet Prime Minister Nikolai Alexandrovich Bulganin. Dignitaries in staff cars. Civilians on a street clap and cheer as Tito's motorcade drives past them. Tito is escorted by Bulganin and other officials. He visits a GAZ (Gorkovsky Avtomobilny Zavod) automobile factory. Tito takes a look at different automobiles.
Yugoslav President and Marshal Josip Broz Tito and his wife Jovanka Broz visits the Soviet Union. Tito's staff car and motorcade arrives in Lenin's Mausoleum at Red Square, Moscow. They place wreaths at the entrance of the tombs of Lenin and Stalin. Marshal Tito, his wife, and Yugoslav officials enter a building in the Kremlin. Tito visits Vladimir Lenin's office. A female guide speaks to Tito and his wife as they stand in front of Lenin's desk. Tito and party walk on a street of Moscow and meet civilians. A Russian woman holding a baby talks to a man during Tito’s visit. Photographers take pictures.
America's first satellite, the Explorer I. It is seen on the launch pad atop the Redstone Juno I rocket that will carry it into orbit on January 31, 1958. The rocket engine fires and the Juno I speeds upward. Next an American Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile is seen being launched 0n 18 December 1958, to steer itself into orbit as a satellite, orbiting the Earth.
A huge gathering present for the 1958 Orange Bowl parade associated with the January 1, 1958 Orange Bowl game between the University of Oklahoma "Sooners" and the Duke University "Blue Devils" college football teams. Dancers and band of the Oklahoma Sooners perform at the parade. Girls dancing, instrumentalists pass by, a clown on a canoe with wheels and another clown on snow skis with wheels. Police motorcyclists perform a drill. Girls in dresses (Orange Bowl queen and court) ride by on a parade float.
Operations aboard USS Essex (CVA-9) during the Lebanon crisis, in 1958. View beneath wing of an aircraft on catapult, as the catapult crew hooks bridle to aircraft. Officer leaves the ship's message center. Hatchway leads into message center. Two junior officers in the communication center. Teletype machines printing out messages aboard ship. Views beneath wing of jet as one of the catapult crew hooks it up to the catapult.
Aboard the USS Essex (CVA-9) in the Mediterranean Sea, off Lebanon, during the crisis in 1958. Radar men on watch monitoring scopes. U.S. Navy sailors aboard ship speak into mikes of their headsets. Room is dimly lit. Teletype machines operation in the communication's center. Two junior officers and an enlisted man walk into the room, look at the message received and tear the message from the machine. They leave quickly.