90001_7549_pt11
Sports Highlights of 1956 (part 2 of 4); At the summer Olympics in Los Angeles, a high jumper clears seven feet, to the great acclaim of the crowd at the jump. Highlights of he top three finishers at the Olympic Diving tryouts are shown. Then off to Texas for the AAU swim meet. We see the inventor of a helicopter-boat demonstrate its flying ability over a lake, and a few scenes from a kayak race. Images are shown from the Indianapolis 500 of crashes and the winner. In Vienna, we see images from a motorcycle race, including a man drive at full speed into the underside of a staircase. In Rouen, a wet motorcycle race leaves one man completely covered in mud.