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From the long-quiet crater a column of fire and molten rock gushed 2,500 feet into the sky. Boiling lava poured down the volcano's sides. As the two laggards fled, they saw their companions frantically trying to escape from the path of the fiery lava streaming toward them. Then a big mushroom-shaped cloud settled over the summit...
Lost River. The site itself has more jackrabbits than humans. Sharp cinder cones and bare-ribbed buttes thrust out of stone-black lava flows. The Big Lost River sinks without a trace into its black, broken ground. The place is 20 miles from the Craters of the Moon, 90 miles from the River of No Return. Except for 20,000 acres of desert grazing land, the government holds title to the entire area...
...Communists were overrunning China like lava. Mukden and all Manchuria were gone-and 60% of China's best troops had gone with them. In the great rust-red plain between Nanking and Suchow, the last government armies in Central China confronted an enemy that had beaten them before. U.S. military experts had given Nanking "ten days to three weeks...
Meanwhile, on Camiguin Island in the Mindanao Sea, Hibok-Hibok volcano erupted last week for the first time since April 30, 1871. Thousands of refugees fled the molten blanket of lava, the smothering volcanic ash and dust. In Manila, a typhoon roared out of the Pacific and lashed the city with torrential rains, paralyzing daily life and restricting traffic in half the capital to bamboo rafts...
...those days, just after the last glacial period, he knew, the Mojave was well-watered, forested country. Amateur Archeologist Stahl tramped the desert, traced the course a river once ran, tumbling from the mountains down over a waterfall (now a dry lava cliff). Half a mile below the "falls," Stahl found a little rounded hill which must have been a pleasant spot in late Pleistocene times. "Here," he said, "is where I would camp if I were a Pinto Man." He dug holes in the bone-dry earth. Three feet below the surface he found stone artifacts characteristic of Pinto...