ISRAELI CASUALTIES Doctors battle to save the wounded from the Israeli destroyer Elath, sunk by Egyptian missiles. 19 are killed, 28 more missing and presumed dead, 48 wounded. Five are buried in a mass funeral in Haifa while mourners cry for revenge.
CHILD SAFETY DEVICE Detroit comes up with "Tot Guard," a device to decrease child-injury figures from car accidents. It's a plastic shield which protects the child from being hurled against the dashboard or windshield.
7 DEAD IN SLEEPER PLANE CRASH Seven persons, including a Congressman, perish in the wreckage of a luxury airliner that crashed into a pine forest near Atlanta, Georgia. Airline President and World War "Ace," Edward V. Rickenbacker, was seriously injured.
OIL TANKERS COLLIDE A grim ordeal by fire and water for eighty-six crewmen as two giant oil tankers collide, and burn on the Delaware River. One dies, and three are missing--many are severely burned in the disaster.
SKI PATROL SAVES AVALANCHE VICTIM In the Canadian Rockies, ski patrol trainees stage the rescue of an avalanche victim. A buried volunteer is located by probing the snow-covered area, and rushed to hospital care via toboggan.
PLANE HITS TOWER 4 die, 17 are injured when a private plane hits an 800 foot radio tower in New Jersey and spins down into an apartment house. More than a hundred in the house were menaced by flaming gasoline and flying wreckage.
DELTA JET CRASHES The R.A.F.'s delta-wing Vulcan bomber crashes in landing, as it completes a 26,000 mile flight, at an average speed of over 500 m.p.h. The loss of the big bomber is a sharp set-back to Britain's air expansion program.
GRAPHIC SCENES AS AIRLINER DITCHES Scenes of the ditching of a Stratocruiser airplane with 31 aboard, 1,000 miles out from San Francisco. Films made from a Coast Guard cutter standing by record the big plane's plunge into the Pacific, and the rescue of the passengers and crew.
CANADA MINE DISASTER Rescue operations in the Springhill, Nova Scotia mine disaster stop with the sealing of the mine to prevent second coal-gas explosion and fire. 26 are still trapped, while 89 are rescued from the mile-deep shafts.
INDIA RAIL DISASTER One of the worst rail disasters in India's history. Over 160 die, hundreds more are injured, when 7 cars are telescoped into a ditch by the collapse of a flood-weakened embankment.
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