Word: paricutin
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...painter could ever claim a more fiery passion than Mexico's Gerardo Murillo. He loved volcanoes. He lived four months on the slopes of Mount Etna, spent six months inside Popoca tepetl's crater, and bought Paricutin volcano for $78 when it was a baby in 1943. He so mistreated his body that his teeth fell out from sulphur fumes and a leg was amputated because of bad circulation. He called himself "Dr. Atl" (Aztec for water), and signed that name to more than 11,000 drawings and 1,000 paintings, mostly volcanic landscapes...
...Encounter). Tractors of any type fascinate him and he currently has three ("they are like pets"). But one hobby takes him far from home. He is wild about volcanoes and will fly thousands of miles to watch one fume and throw lava into the air. When Mexico's famed Paricutin was erupting, Sikorsky traveled twice to the craterside to admire the effect...
...special name, is interesting to scientists because active volcanos in the western Pacific east of Hawaii are rare; this is the first that has erupted in historical times. But it probably will not last as long as Mexico's other new volcano, the tourist gold mine Paricutin...
...their splendor, many of the buildings and details that caught Kelemen's eye were in a crumbling state. Even in a few years' time, "the volcano of Paricutin in Mexico . . . floods in Guatemala, seismic catastrophes in El Salvador and Ecuador, civil strife in Colombia and an earthquake in Cuzco have all taken a tragic toll." Worst of all, according to Kelemen: civil authorities who are letting local masterpieces deteriorate through neglect-or are tearing them down to make way for widened streets and modern buildings...
...Vera Cruz El Dictamen had a newsbeat: a new volcano was hissing and smoking up out of a farmer's field, just as famed Paricutin did four years ago. Villagers from the interior, said El Dictamen, were fleeing the smoke and hot ashes. The A.P. picked up the story; most U.S. newspapers ran it. Last week Mexican and U.S. scientists (but few newspaper readers) heard the truth. El Dictamen had been hoaxed...