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...telegram telling him to investigate an eruption near Lake Kivu. He found Mount Kituro blasting furiously, but descended alone into the crater with only a handkerchief tied over his face. The volcano stepped up its action, attacking him with poisonous fumes and great gobs of molten lava. He barely managed to struggle out of the crater alive. "I found the phenomenon extremely spectacular," he says, "and also interesting. It attracted me very much...
...drops his regular work whenever he gets a chance to confront an active volcano. Protected by fiber-glass armor that can deflect a molten bomb weighing 100 Ibs., he carefully stalks into the craters, sometimes close to the roaring throats, and plants seismographs to measure the heartbeat of lava rising deep under the mountain. He samples gases with little glass tubes poked into hot ash, studies the unstable build-up of fresh cinders. So far, Tazieff has escaped without serious injury...
...Atlantic Ocean, and down through its center, keeping equidistant between the two continents, runs the mid-Atlantic ridge, where the ocean floor is still cracking and separating. In highly volcanic Iceland, where the ridge comes to the surface, is a belt of brand-new land made of basaltic lava that the rising rock current has brought up from deep in the earth...
...Cannon seems considerate, practical, matter-of-fact, and then his nerves start to sing like high-tension wires. The playgoer senses that he is watching a man hiding from the beast in himself. James Earl Jones can be as quiet as an extinct volcano one moment, and spewing emotional lava across a stage the next. With some actors, words clothe feelings; with Jones, feelings unclothe words so that joy, rage, wonder and sadness radiate nakedly through the theater...
...week's end, however, the shocks eased-and at that there was even some disappointment, reflected by the housewife who complained: "All that scare and trouble, and no lava." The truth is that many Sao Jorgeans were hoping to share the fate of the victims of a 1957 volcanic eruption which poured ash over the neighboring island of Faial. The U.S. Congress passed Public Law 85-892 providing 1,500 special nonquota immigrant visas for destitute Faialeans, and they sailed off happily to live...