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Czechoslovakia. Thousands are being deported from Prague, Brno and Bratis lava. A new town is being built near the Soviet border, to accommodate deported workers intended for the nearby copper mines. Homes left vacant by the deported are filled up with "essential workers," i.e., young Communists with technical skills wanted for industry, particularly arma ments. Four army generals, accused of plotting against the Red regime, have been arrested...
...signs erected at Mihara volcano, Nishikigaura inlet and Kegon waterfall near Tokyo, favorite spots for Japanese suicides. Despite this earnest entreaty, some 500 Japanese, taught by Japanese tradition that self-destruction offers an honorable solution to all kinds of trouble, leaped into the lava, the ocean and the abyss beneath the waterfall...
Then, as it must in all sarong epics, catastrophe intrudes on the idyl. The island volcano (realistically played by Hawaii's erupting Mauna Loa) sends fiery lava streaming into the valley, and Jourdan's bride gets her orders from the kahuna to appease the gods by leaping into the angry crater...
...cough, and in an instant there was a Bikini-like cloud above it." In a single blast the whole northern side of the peak had blown up. The black cloud, "full of streaks of red lightning," boiled up to 50,000 feet, mushroomed 100 miles wide. Not molten lava, but pumice dust and hot scoria (like clinkers from a furnace) flew out of the crater, making the earth for miles around too hot to live...
...companion and maid to Tallulah Bankhead, was charged with stealing more than $4,000 from her former employer by raising and forging checks. The money was used, cried the defendant's lawyer, to buy things for Miss Bankhead-"Cocaine, marijuana, liquor, booze, whisky, champagne and sex." Retorted outraged lava-voiced Tallulah: "Of course I drink. But nobody has to kite checks to pay for my liquor." As for dope: "Even if I had been getting it-which I certainly wasn't-do you think I'd have been paying for it by check?" But what made Actress...