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...volcano that has been belching smoke and bad smells on San Benedicto Island, off the west coast of Mexico, probably blew its top two months ago. In July the Navy SOFAR (sound fixing and ranging) station in Hawaii picked up rumbling sounds on its hydrophones. Floating pumice of unknown origin was seen on the sea. But uninhabited San Benedicto Island is far from shipping lanes, and the volcano went on smoking and rumbling in private until it was reported by a tuna boat. Last week the first scientific report on its goings-on was made by Oceanographer Robert S. Dietz...
This varied composition is explained by assuming that the planet they came from was molten inside. The heavy metal in it had sunk toward the center. The lighter stony stuff had risen toward the surface. In between was a zone containing both metal and stone. So when the planet blew up, its fragments might be either metal or stone or a mixture of both...
Brooklyn Manager Charley Dressen (who last week promised readers of the Saturday Evening Post that "The Dodgers Won't Blow It Again") hoped he had an answer for the Giants in Rookie Reliefer Joe Black (14-3). But this week, when the Dodgers blew a crucial game to the sixth-place Cincinnati Reds, only a timely St. Louis victory over the Giants kept the Brooklyn lead at 3 games (compared with their 6-game lead at the same pre-disaster time last year). Yankee Manager Casey Stengel, aiming for his fourth straight pennant, had a more convincing answer...
Salvation a la Munchausen. The first of them began in 1905 in Budapest. His father was a promoter and would be inventor who soon struck it rich with a "radioactive" soap. His mother was a hysteric who blew hot & cold until little Arthur had emotional chilblains. To make bad worse, Arthur turned out to be unusually short, yet something of a child prodigy too, "admired for my brains and detested for my character by children and teachers alike." He had little home training in the Jewish faith of his fathers, and early in life his belief in a personal...