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...tourists discover the really spectacular scenery of the other islands: the painted-desert colors of Kauai's Waimea canyon; the vast, gaping Crater of the Sun atop Haleakala on Maui; the hissing craters and the black sand beach on Hawaii, "the big island." Overall, the islands have the raw material to lure the tourist dollar, but Hawaii's capitalists-old & new-will have to build more hotels before they can handle enough tourists to close the gap between imports and exports...
...Communists alleged three more acts of U.N. barbarism: a U.N. bombing of a Red P.W. camp at Kang-dong, 18 miles northeast of Pyongyang; an air strafing of a properly marked Red truce delegation convoy north of Kaesong; and an air attack on the Kaesong zone itself, where a crater 25 ft. wide and 8 ft. deep was exhibited to U.N. investigators...
Then the expedition tried dragging powerful magnets over the ground, hoping to pick up fragments of nickel-iron. The soil around the Arizona crater is full of such stuff, but not one bit did they find near the Chubb Crater. Geologist Meen suspects that the Chubb meteorite may have been made largely of stone, which disintegrated on impact and drifted away as dust...
...final test, a magnetometer survey, was hastily completed just before the quick-coming arctic winter was about to close down. The scientists carried a sensitive magnetometer all around the crater, charting the magnetic lines of force. Under the northern rim they found what they were looking for: a "magnetic anomaly" indicating that a large mass of metal-bearing material lies buried far below the surface...
...exact spot where a buried meteorite should be. The northern rim of the crater is higher than the others, so the meteorite probably slanted down from the south, burying itself under the granite slightly to the north of the crater. This evidence, added to the shape of the lake and the "ripples" in the granite around it, convinces Dr. Meen that the crater is meteoric. If it is, it is the largest interplanetary shell hole (more than two miles across) that anyone has yet discovered on the earth's surface...