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Volcanologists like to analyze the lava of new volcanoes, but getting the lava samples can be a sticky business. Last week two scientific adventurers from San Diego, Adrian Richards and Lewis Walker, told about their dangerous visit to El Boquerón (Big Mouth), the new volcano on tiny San Benedicto Island off the west coast of Mexico. They were the first to set foot on the still-smoking cone...
When they got back to San Diego, their lava samples were analyzed at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. They seem to be "acidic," which would prove, according to Scripps Man Richards, that the volcano is a continental type in spite of its position well out from the continental shelf. It may get its lava from a deep-down magma reservoir like those which have fed volcanoes on the Mexican mainland...
Linkletter is probably the most notable living native of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. His parents moved to California when he was six, and Art worked his way through San Diego State College, won his varsity letter at basketball and swimming. A big (6 ft. i in., 210 Ibs.) and serious-minded athlete, he has only this year given up competing in National A.A.U. handball tournaments. He got into radio on a local San Diego station and has broadcast from planes, dirigibles, battleships and submarines. Once he had himself hoisted up & down the face of a skyscraper in a bosun...
...Mexico City, Artist Diego Rivera, who was expelled from the Communist Party in 1929. later compounded his sins by providing a home in exile for Leon Trotsky, made his third formal appeal to be taken back into the fold. He had been, said Rivera, "a coward, traitor, counterrevolutionary, abject degenerate" who would, if given another chance, pledge his art and reputation to the sole service of "Marxism-Leninism-Stalinism," the "only just and true political line...
...where Marines might go next. Besides the First Division in Korea, the corps has two trained divisions, each with its air arm, waiting stateside for trouble-the Second at Camp Lejeune, N.C., the Third at Camp Pendleton (see color pages), Calif. Boot camps at Parris Island, S.C. and San Diego are hup-reeping steadily away at rebuilding civilian youths to the sunburned, stiff-backed Marine mold, and pumping them into the service...