Word: crater
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thin air over Mexico City. To tourists looking out from their hotel windows, the rosy mountain is enchanting. But to the primitive Indians living in the village of Amecameca at the volcano's base, it is frightening. Centuries ago their ancestors cast human sacrifices into the crater's fiery maw. Today Popocatepetl sleeps, but the Indians of Amecameca are sure that it is still hungry and jealous of its rights...
...village of Amecameca the Indians waited, unconvinced. One evening last week, an exhausted young man staggered into a climbers' base camp with word that an avalanche had overtaken a party of five men and three women under the crater's rim. He had heard the thunder of the slide, then screams in the cloud haze that enveloped the peak. Groping through the darkness and swirling snow, he found a youth and a girl, half buried and moaning with pain. Their companions were lost somewhere in the snow...
...more flamboyant than Yomiuri's swaggering, marble-domed Matsutaro Shoriki. 69, who also owns eight big magazines and Japan's only commercial TV network. Once, for a lively story, Publisher Shoriki sent a team of reporters "down as far as you possibly dare" into an offshore volcano crater. When they returned and reported that the crater was full of the bodies of suicides, Shoriki built a platform overlooking the crater, ran excursion boats to the site and watched Yomiuri's circulation climb with the suicide rate. Such spectacular journalism has made Shoriki the most successful publisher...
Bombs of this size may never be assembled. Even if considerably smaller, they would be hard to deliver, and they would "overbomb" a small area, digging a deep crater instead of spreading their killing effect over the living film that covers the surface of an inhabited region. There is a way, however, of getting around this disadvantage...
...Kikuta will only say, "I should like to see a sad-happy ending." Radio listeners are predicting that 1) Haruki and Machiko will marry and she will then die in childbirth, or 2) Haruki and Machiko will both climb Mount Fuji and make a double suicide dive into the crater of the sacred volcano...