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...19th century lecture tours is recaptured during the five-day convention, where the audience chooses a winner from among both the celebrity and the amateur speakers. At one of the numerous parties, Cleo Dawson, who will not give her age but is recognized as the eldest I.P.A. member, sat beneath a flower-bedecked hat and shouted encouragement to various contestants. "Hello, honey," she yelled, "you were wonderful last night." Turning back to her table, Dawson got serious. "There are no second-raters, not here. They're all artists." Her favorite lecturer? Says Dawson: "Myself...
...story short (the demands here are somewhat more telescopic than those Big Jim labors under), there would be dinosaurs and much later there would be fossil fuels. Cow towns called Midland and Odessa would be established, their commercial cornerstones eventually to shift from cattle to the petroleum that lay beneath the desert pocked by what the Spanish speakers called playas and the English speakers called buffalo wallows. This would be known as the oil business, pronounced locally "thawlbidness...
...Beneath its distinctive decor, the conspicuous helmet was a cap of riveted metal leaves, weighing up to 11 lbs. and meant to protect a man's skull against sword and club. But was ever a martial object more drenched in symbolic fancy? The helmet had to convey no meaning to the warlord's troops except its own singularity. It was the exact reverse of a "uniform"; it was a portable spectacle. Its shape was not determined by the kind of functional rules that governed the making of a samurai's main emblem, the katana or long sword, whose basic form...
...week's end the rescue squads working heroically in the shadow of the volcano were giving fear little thought. All their efforts were bent on saving the living. Only now and then did they have time to think of the thousands of dead who lay beneath their feet. Giving in fully to the release of grief was a luxury that Colombia could not yet afford. --By George Russell. Reported by Bernard Diederich/Armero and Tom Quinn and Gavin Scott/Bogot...
...plunge under the North American plate, suddenly jarred loose and lurched ahead. Last week's burst involved a similar movement of plates, but the result was entirely different. Extending along most of the coast of South America, the dense Nazca plate of the Pacific, moving eastward, subducts, or descends beneath, the lighter mass of the South American plate, which is moving westward. As the oceanic plate dives deeper into a region of high temperature and pressure some 60 miles to 125 miles below the earth's surface, rock in the area begins to soften and form magma, molten rock. Says...