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Alerted by the tunamen, Dr. Dietz flew down in an Air Force weather-watching B29. The volcano was still going strong, but probably not as strong as when it was younger. It has built a cinder cone some 800 ft. above the former level of the rocky island. Every five or ten minutes it shoots up tons of gas and ash, then lies quiet for five or ten minutes. Between explosions, Dr. Dietz from his airplane took a deep look into the crater. He estimated that the temperature of the erupting throat is about 2,000° F. He also...
Demonstrating the "Thermit" method of producing steel, Rochow ordered the first four rows to vacate their seats--then ignited a cone-shaped crucible filled with powdered aluminum and iron oxide...
...Take away the water," said a government vulcanologist, "and there's no difference between this volcano and land volcanoes. It is in the process of building up a cone. Most likely it has been in that process for centuries." Superstitious natives think otherwise. Some say the Didicas Rocks are the steeples of an old Spanish church, submerged long ago by God to punish some wicked Spanish friars. The smoking crater, they insist, is a hole in the church dome, a chimney for incense being burned by the long-dead friars as an act of repentance...
According to Nature. Cézanne liked to say that what he saw in nature was "the cylinder, the sphere, and the cone," though what he painted was hardly so chill or so simple. The cubists took their cue from his words, called him a father of modern art. Cézanne would not have appreciated the intended compliment; theories bored him, and his pictures were translations of what he saw, not demonstrations of what he thought...
...addition to Halley, John Cone, Jr., district attorney for Queens County, and Jerome Rappaport '49, founder of the New Boston Committee, will appear on the program...