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WDCR, the student operated radio station said that, Farrand Stanley, a native farmer of New Hampshire's Etna mountains, telephoned a class officer saying he had as old bars he wanted wrecked. The students could tear it down and use it for firewood. Stanley gave explicit directions as to the location of the barn...
...thing though. It wasn't Stanley's barn, it was a barn owned by another Etna farmer, Bert Hughes...
Typical of the anger and frustration prevailing in Italy's impoverished south was the situation in Catania, an industrial city at the foot of Mount Etna. Projected only a few years ago as the Milan of the south, the city today is overwhelmed by seemingly unsolvable credit difficulties. Voters there gave the neo-Fascists an impressive 21.5% of the vote. "It was a corrivo," said a worker. The word means "a boom of rage...
Dantesque Scene. Such problems are hardly new. Famed among the ancients as the forge of the fire god Vulcan, Etna has acted up throughout recorded history. During medieval times, its lava completely destroyed the city of Catania. The latest series of rumblings-the most dramatic in two decades and the eleventh of the century-began in the late afternoon of April 5. In a Dantesque scene, gases, glowing cinders, red-hot boulders and seething lava (temperature: about 2,000° F.) spewed out of newly opened boccas, or mouths, on Etna's upper slopes. Hot tongues of lava engulfed...
Scores of reporters and cameramen have arrived to record the geological drama. In one memorable scene, TV cameras caught a highway bridge on Etna's panoramic Sea and Snow drive being twisted and melted by encroaching lava. The eruptions have also created a carnival-like atmosphere; a few of the tourists have gone so far as to cheer whenever the lava pours into a fresh field or orchard. That behavior has threatened another kind of blowup: fighting between insensitive sightseers and angered Sicilian farmers...