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Rikitake reasoned that the basaltic lava forced up through Mihara's throat is strongly magnetic when it is cold. Like other materials, however, it loses its magnetism when it gets hot. Therefore, the region near the volcano's white-hot core should be less magnetic than other places a little farther away. Rikitake checked this theory by circling the mountain with his instruments. A chart of the magnetic field also showed the shape of the hot and hidden core...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Pattern for Suicide | 6/6/1955 | See Source »

...Words of Lava. Togliatti's characteristically effective oratory flowed like lava across the big crowd in Trieste's Valmaura sports stadium. As he spoke, the hot sun beat down on him. Suddenly, after 45 minutes of his harangue, Togliatti gasped and slid heavily into a nearby chair. His secretary and girl friend, Leonilde lotti, handed him an aspirin tablet: Togliatti swallowed it, then stood up, apologized for "my slight indisposition" and finished his speech in a few minutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Man of Many Lives | 5/30/1955 | See Source »

Long-winded and proud, Indian runners raced through the streets of Mexico City to carry a flaming torch into a vast lava bed that lies on the edge of their capital. As twilight settled over the University of Mexico's vast Olympic Stadium, 21 guns boomed in salute, the last runner lit the "eternal" Olympic fire, and President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines opened the second Pan-American Games...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Off-Year Olympics | 3/28/1955 | See Source »

Professor Urey, of course, has the right and the duty to speak out on political issues. But it is highly unfortunate that his speech rates wide publicity. The lava of Urey's wrath, filled though it may be with extra neutrons, is worth no more than that of any number of intelligent citizens. These citizens can only express themselves in the Letters to the Editor column; the press does not present them with the opportunity to be news hence authoritative, though their ideas may be worth far more than Urey's. The majority of renders tend to think...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FALSE ADVERTISING | 3/15/1955 | See Source »

...moon plowed through the ring of satellites, they smashed into its surface and exploded like H-bombs. They dug craters, sometimes cracked the crust and let lava from the hot interior flow out to form "seas" and plains. Later the moon cooled and wrinkled. The last of the satellites threw up mountainous walls of rubble, scattered giant boulders for miles around, and etched brilliant white craters on the brittle crust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Moon Markings | 12/6/1954 | See Source »

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