in politics are forgotten as sister barbara joins the fun on the farm but in a nearby town it's back to business as five hundred republican leaders meet the year the president carried thirty nine states four years ago emphasized the gains momentum by sixty million voters make up their mind this dirty little plane built by a danish mechanic first flew in nineteen seconds fifty years later it will fly again after twenty centuries palm is catching up with the colosseum in rome a famous landmark is developing a series of cracks on the sides of the greatest ampitheater ever built by the romans is gradually crumbling away engineers are desperately seeking a way to preserve the gigantic rowand which towers one hundred fifty seven feet above the modern city after surviving that a cloud over almost the vandals on the homes of the proud coliseum is yielding to the relentless the explosion which sets off a tidal wave on the little lake registers like in various places on the seismograph and on our cameraman the operational part of the coming geophysical year an international study of the mysteries of the richest salmon fishing spot no more lowly indians of the region risk their lives as they have here for centuries do nothing colombia as part of silver s a family of sixty two is for mrs bird wife a labor of love for in addition to five children of her own she and her husband made a home for fifty five unwanted youngsters the age range from four months to fourteen years once homeless an unloved the top secured for with affection and understanding by the whites a kindly bowmanville ontario farm couple it's a voluntary undertaking dante which calls for some mighty providing and caring to the winds just can't turn a homeless child from their door or their hearts and as news of their kindness keeps spreading their family keeps growing although they receive little financial aid the whites say their award is in seeing the children healthy and happy and then remembering the words of christ suffer the little children to come unto me age in america it would happen in titusville pennsylvania two years later the story begins with the arrival of colonel and one great to inspect the strange spring that bubbled both water an been commissioned to find a satisfactory way of collecting the oil then fifteen feet and there it was just as he had insisted it would be but it turban colonel great would not however give up he brought in pipes convinced that they could be driven deep enough to pass through and keep out the water table above the oil straight until on august twenty seventh eight hundred fifty nine they had all at sixty nine feet breaks polly had become one of the most important discoveries in american history colonel drake's single well it was the beginning of a new industry that came into being almost overnight the oil industry titusville farmers began probing their own lands as word of drake success spread sometimes their tools were crude but their determination was  and well sprang up all across the countryside brakes well produced about twenty barrels daily in america today production exceeds five and a half million barrels a day almost a century of on parallel progress for our country made possible by a man who wouldn't give up colonel edwin whose turbulent sand laden waters ground up this narrow canyon carved through solid rock at the rate of four feet every ten thousand years the world's highest suspension bridge spans this gateway to the rockies and at the gorges narrowest point barely thirty feet wide girders anchored to the granite walls support the only hanging railroad br reach from denver to new york city and on out into the atlantic ocean halfway to london perched on the brink of a sheer thousand foot drop watch a train pass far below so deep as the gorge that the eiffel towers stood on the canyon floor would fall seventy  a new set of passengers goes aboard for the climb to the canyon top a thousand and fifty three feet above race through the royal guard and arms lease joining the mighty mississippi fourteen hundred miles away the arkansas became the fifth longest river in america the royal gorge had been moment only to the indian until eighteen hundred six when captain zeppelin pike commissioned by the army to explore territory acquired in the louisiana purchase discovered what he called the big ten the words of shakespeare though three hundred fifty years old come alive as a young visitors past the castles great ordinance guns their barrels which once boom broyles salutes were are again sweeping us into the past to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune auto take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing and to die to sleep to tie to sleep to sleep perchance to dream i there's a rub for in that sleep of death what dreams may come when we have enterprises of great pitch and moment with this regard their currents turn or i and lose the name of action the ballroom which now echoes with emptiness was once the castle theatre in england shakespeare's plays were performed before queen elizabeth the women's parts were played by boys shakespeare often watch from the sidelines is possibly of acting as expressed in hamlet advice to his players speak a speech i pray you as i gently be not too tame either but let your own discretion be your tutor suit the action to the word the word to the action with this special observance that you are a step not the modesty of nature or anything so overdone departs from the purpose of playing whose end both at the first and now was and is to hold as to where the mirror up to nature shakespeare who your i knew him a ratio of fellow of infinite jest of most excellent fancy he has borne me on his back up thousand times where be your gibes now your songs