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...always said I wanted to live long I enough to see one of our volcanoes erupt," said Dixy Lee Ray, the Governor of Washington. She got her wish last week when Mount St. Helens, a peaceful-looking 9,677-ft. peak in the white-topped Cascade Range, suddenly spewed out a spectacular 20,000-ft. plume of gas and ash. The eruption was the first in the continental U.S. since 1914, when Mount Lassen, part of the Cascades in Northern California, came to life. Said Robert Tilling of the U.S. Geological Survey: "It's fabulous! We can actually monitor...
...Helens, a mere 37,000 years old ("A baby in geologic terms," said a seismologist), is one of the youngest in the range. It last erupted in 1857. Studying the evidence of explosions during the past 4,500 years, Geological Survey scientists predicted in 1978 that the symmetrical peak, visible from Portland 40 miles to the southwest, would blow before the year 2000. Two weeks ago the mountain was shaken by a sharp earthquake, followed by a series of tremors. Then came another jolt. Suddenly last Thursday, the silence on the snow-covered slopes was shattered by an explosion that...
Streaked by lightning, a black and white plume soared high above the cloud cover around the peak. Scientists who rushed to the mountain discovered that a crater 200 ft. wide by 250 ft. long had opened near the mountain's northern crest. Three hundred loggers working on the slopes, 50 forest rangers and their families and 60 residents of the tiny village of Spirit Lake (pop. 100), located at 3,200 ft., were evacuated. One defiant oldtimer, Harry Truman, 83, operator of the Mount St. Helens Lodge less than two miles from the crater, said he would stick...
...concentration, which he said yesterday was not at the level an extended four-day professional tournament required. This tournament, his first professional one since finishing his intercollegiate career at Harvard, found him "very mentally tired" from having to keep telling and psyching himself to perform at his peak, Desaulniers said...
...wizard of light turned out a steady stream of new cameras, faster developing films and color films. During its go-go Wall Street era, Polaroid became the epitome of a glamour stock. A $1,000 investment in the company in 1938 was worth more than $4 million at its peak...