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...building people of the Philippine Islands"; "A comparative cyto-histological study of the meri-stems of buds and of tropical ferns, gym-nosperms and woody angiosperms"; "A comparative investigation of the neuropsychological determinants of the phenomena of dissociation"; "A spectroscopic study and analysis of gases of the volcano Mauna Loa." Says Miller (who was refused a Guggenheim): "A corn-fed hog enjoys a better life [in the U.S.] than a creative writer, painter or musician. To be a rabbit is better still...
During an eruption of volcanic Mauna Loa in Hawaii in 1935, U.S. Army airmen tried (with debatable success) to divert the flow of lava by dropping a few bombs on strategic spots. Last week Allied bombers, flying over the smoky craters of Mt. Etna in Sicily and Mt. Vesuvius on the Bay of Naples, thought of other strategic spots: could a few well-placed bombs start Etna and Vesuvius erupting...
Late last month Mauna Loa grumbled, heaved. The volcano erupted suddenly in great fiery fountains of lava. They spurted 600 ft. in the air, lighting the clouds above blacked-out Hawaii, rolled in a torrent of molten rock down the slopes to the city and harbor of Hilo 30 miles away...
Closer & closer the burning river ap proached, eating through forests, moving on the city. Mauna Loa had not been so angry since 1881. But warplanes slipped their bombs into the tubes of lava, collapsed them, stifled the flow. Eleven miles from the city's center, the river of lava smoked to a halt...
After the first outburst, the volcano calmed down. But in Mauna Loa's cauldron, Pele's brew continued to boil and bubble...