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Two police officers and a Los Angeles Herald-Examiner reporter ignoring fast-moving brush flames, rescued three tots (one obscured) during a canyon blaze in Los Angeles.

Crewmen from the grounded Hiroshima Maru (background) trudge across the Ala Moana Reef with salvaged possessions tied to fishing floats.

After a school bus-train tragedy, parents of every student on the bus were assembled in the court house. As the bodies of the children were identified, their names were announced to the waiting parents. Some families lost as many as two and three…

A loyalist trooper drags a dead companion away from the fighting, June 6th, as other troopers and tanks in the background continue fighting a rebel post in the city. Government troops continued occupation of Puerto Cabello, after two days of fighting…

Father Luis Manuel Padilla, Venezuelan navy chaplain, bends over body of one of five government soldiers who were among victims of Communist-backed revolt in Puerto Cabello, Venzuela. Soldiers were shot in house to house fighting in the city near the…

Father Luis Manuel Padilla, Venezuelan navy chaplain, holds up a government soldier in Puerto Cabello street after the soldier was wounded during two-day revolt by Communist-backed rebels. The priest was waiting for someone to take the wounded man…

Series of photographs showing a debutante at her ball.

Two tugboats sitting side by side.

The Soviet Union's sudden testing of nuclear devices in the Arctic, shattered an Atom-test moratorium. In a loss of diplomatic calm Russia's United Nations representative Semyon Tsarapkin wrenches his hands as General Assembly's First Committe…

Pole vaulter is in the air when his fiberglass pole breaks.