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Volcanologists like to analyze the lava of new volcanoes, but getting the lava samples can be a sticky business. Last week two scientific adventurers from San Diego, Adrian Richards and Lewis Walker, told about their dangerous visit to El Boquerón (Big Mouth), the new volcano on tiny San Benedicto Island off the west coast of Mexico. They were the first to set foot on the still-smoking cone...
...started for the volcano on board the research yacht Observer, they had been told that its activity was dying down. This report, they found, was premature. A great hole had opened in the side of the cone 150 ft. above sea level, and a tumbling flood of orange-hot lava blocks was building a hissing delta. The two men crept as near as they dared and estimated the lava's temperature as about...
...night the delta glowed like the door of a great furnace. The lava coming out of the hole was brilliantly white-hot. It dulled to orange and then to red as it neared the boiling...
...struck the mile-square shantytown of Albertynsville, where 5,000 Negroes and half-castes lived in mud huts. For an instant, the growling air was filled with flying tin roofs; then the pelting rains crumbled Albertynsville's mud huts into a slough of grey ooze that flowed like lava, choked with sticks of furniture, rusty pots & pans, and here & there a corpse. The toll was: 20 killed, 400 injured, 4,000 homeless...
...bush schools supervised by K.A.U., Jomo Kenyatta's name has been substituted for that of Jesus Christ. Charged as the "leading spirit" of the Mau Mau movement, Kenyatta was packed off to a "not very comfortable" billet in the North Kenya desert-miles & miles of sunbaked lava crumbling like broken biscuit. With him, under guard, went most of the staff of K.A.U. What Next? Governor Baring's anti-Mau Mau drive seemed at first sight to be working-though the government freely admitted that the Kikuyu tribe remains "sullen and unpleasant." Yet few Kenyans believe that force alone...