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...heat cannot easily escape. After millions of years, the temperature rises until a vast blister of hot, expanded rock has formed. If it works its way to the surface, or if cracks appear, the hot rock may liquefy and escape as a volcanic explosion or a quiet outflow of lava...
...Movements may be as formless as a shifting fog, as destructive as a stream of lava, as senseless as a panic-stricken mob, as regimented to evil ends as Naziism, as suicidal as the movements of the Gadarene swine. The ecumenical movement is a movement of free men all in one direction. It is a movement of churches toward their own center, a concentration of Christendom on Christ. Because we see through a glass darkly, because we get in each other's way a good deal, because we are sinners and because we are involved in the world...
...game lived there; no food could be found in the cheat grass and grotesque lava beds. In places the river gorge cut so deep that voyagers could not get down to the water. At times Indians pounced; in 1862 they ambushed a caravan of 25 Iowa families, killing nine settlers and scalping...
Several Idaho streams, e.g., the Lost River, sink into the lava wastelands but, about 200 ft. down, flow in a steady surge. Pumps are tapping the water, enough for 648 new homesteads. At last week's drawing, 85 were to be parceled...
...Cover) By the evening of Thursday, Feb. 25, 1954, Senator Joe McCarthy, after a fortnight of mounting frenzy, had built the smallest of molehills into one of the most devastating political volcanoes that ever poured the lava of conflict and the ash of dismay over Washington. Joe, the stoker, was still disorganized but quick-witted, charging in and out of his Senate office, snatching up telephones, rushing to the Senate floor to answer quorum calls, dictating statements to reporters. As he dashed about, his office staff lost track, believed a rumor that he had emplaned for New York. Then...