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...Dante's Inferno, frothing with burning gas, squirting great cherry-red fountains from a shimmering pool of lava. Sometimes the lava overflows, oozes down the mountain; sometimes it blows a vent through the wall of the cone below the crest; and again it may rise in the crater well, put on incomparable pyrotechnics, then retire under a hardening shell...
...reaches Bremerhaven, another transport will be at sea, a third preparing to sail. Within a month, some 1,250 wives & children will have passed through New York's Fort Hamilton embarkation center. Said one wife of her husband: "I'd rather live with him in a bomb crater than go on with this separation...
...atom bomb rocketed to the moon ought to blast a magnificent crater there. Some of the fragments would almost certainly escape from the moon's weak gravitation and shower down on earth, as rather sluggish meteors. Scientists, analyzing them, could then prove beyond all doubt that they were not green cheese...
Instead of a scenic lake, Oregonians feared that they might have a scenic volcano on their hands. Said Professor Howel Williams, leading volcanologist : "Renewed activity is not out of the question." Crater Lake was formed some 10,000 years ago, when 12,000-ft. Mt. Mazama blew its top. The eruption covered 5,000-odd square miles of Oregon with pumice six inches deep. Incandescent avalanches fried the Klamath Plateau for 25 miles around the vent. Seventeen cubic miles of rock were blasted to smithereens...
About 5,000 years later, a lesser eruption produced a 3,000-foot "pup volcano" which now projects from Crater Lake, forming Wizard Island. If another active period is beginning, it may raise another pup. But a full-size volcano is unlikely...