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...Latin is "in the ash can" [TIME, April 14], that is where it belongs...
When Wilson Wyatt and the Veterans Emergency Housing Program were thrown out in December, it was proclaimed that now something could be done to stimulate building, that now that "these bureaucratic restrictions" were in the federal ash-can, private enterprise would get to work and provide the necessary housing. Even the President had said in his opening message to Congress that one million homes would be built this year, as matters then stood...
When Paricutin first poked its red-hot nose out of Dionisio Polido's cornfield on Feb. 20, 1943, geologists predicted it would soon die down. But it fooled the experts and kept on growing. In its first year, spewing lava, ash and massive "bombs," Paricutin grew 1,290 feet. It is still adding slowly to its present height (1,380 ft). Geologists estimate that it has ejected by now 1,058,220,800 tons of material. The crater, for the moment, is in a quiet phase, with only a dull glow at night and a pillar of smoke...
...some 2,000 feet down they found that the atoll was made of coral and similar stuff, rather like what was found on the surface. Then began a zone of heavier rock, which might be ash thrown out by a volcano, or limestone formed by corals and other sea creatures and compacted by pressure. At about 5,000 feet, they found what they had hoped to find: a "buried mountain" of heavy rock...
...latest television stunt. A willowy wisp of a girl last week climbed into a 190-lb. diving suit and tangoed around (with a suitably dressed partner) in a tank containing 15 feet of water. The girl: ash blonde Gillian Webb*-the 20-year-old who, with two older colleagues, does all the BBC's television announcing, a job which ordinarily demands only an ability to chat at a battery of cameras...