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...correspondents described expansively last week as "miles and miles of tents" (5,000) on the great "Parliamentary Plain" or Thingvellir, where the "All Speaking" or Althing assembled 1,000 years ago near the "Parliamentary Plain Lake" of Thingvallavatn within sight of a long oval fragment of volcanic lava, the "Mount of Law" or Logberg. English correspondents, meticulous, described the excellent sanitary arrangements in the tents: "Water has been laid on and scullery facilities provided...
...verbal crazy quilts); but he has written it in the good old-fashioned way. A native of Massachusetts, he is the author of a bill against censorship introduced in the State Legislature by Senator Henry Parkman Jr. last December. His other books: Indelible, Impromptu, Imperturbe, Low Run Tide, Lava Rock...
...Guatemala City, Pilot Richardson learned more details. Only a few hours of rumbling prefaced the eruption. Three hundred to 400 persons were reported killed. Eight important coffee plantations were destroyed. Red hot lava had buried the village of El Patrocinio deeper than Pompeii...
Colonel Daniel Hernandez, Guatemalan Minister of Promotion, visited the scene of the eruption at once, approached as close as possible to the lava stream and reported blackened corpses, like raisins on a pudding, carried along on its surface. Came an official bulletin...
...Feather-soft ashes, not hard lava buried Pompeii, preserved...