A mother's scream rose shrilly. Four-year-old Diana Svet, walking down the gangplank of the Yugoslav passenger-freighter Srbija at a Brooklyn pier last week, had broken away from her mother, started running, slipped and plunged into the narrow crevice between ship and pier.
On the instant, Pier Superintendent Ignazio Scibilia yelled an ail-ashore order to his crews, unloading copper from the Srbija. Some 150 husky dockers, used to emergencies, poured from the ship and other parts of the dock. Six loading tractors were swung around with noses pressed against the Srbija's side. Hawsers were slackened, 150 men and six machines pushed,...
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