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Politics erupted the length of Italy last week, with a lava flow of candidates, party slogans and oratory. For all its ancient past, Italy has been a united nation for barely a century, and a republic for only seven years. This year's national election, the first since 1948, brought out 8,500 candidates for 590 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 237 seats in the Senate...
...boulder-strewn lava plain outside Mexico City, 10,000 workmen, artists and engineers labored last week to finish Mexico's biggest single construction job since the building of the Halls of Montezuma (circa 1500). For the 401-year-old University of Mexico, North America's oldest university,* they were creating a handsome, ultramodern University City, spectacularly expressive of the new, post-revolutionary Mexico. Scheduled for occupancy early next year, the dazzling, $50 million University City is the most up-to-date college campus anywhere...
During their first day on the dangerous island, Richards and Walker climbed the cone and descended 200 ft. into the crater, often sinking to their knees in fine lava dust. They watched steam escaping from a hole 6 ft. across "with a roar that you would expect from 100 jet planes...
...days later, while Richards and Walker were camped at the foot of the cone, the volcano blew its top. A vast cloud of black smoke billowed out of the crater, almost from the spot where they had waded in the lava dust. It rose to a great height; then its steam condensed and fell as a scalding deluge of muddy rain. Richards and Walker escaped in a skiff, rowing madly, and took refuge on a tuna boat...
When they got back to San Diego, their lava samples were analyzed at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. They seem to be "acidic," which would prove, according to Scripps Man Richards, that the volcano is a continental type in spite of its position well out from the continental shelf. It may get its lava from a deep-down magma reservoir like those which have fed volcanoes on the Mexican mainland...