Word: volcano
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Santo Domingo is a volcano that is going to envelop all Latin America in flames!" shrilled Rafael Tavera, 26, a leader of the Dominican Republic's Castroite 14th of June Movement. In the war-weary city's rebel zone last week, there was a celebration to observe the sixth anniversary of an abortive June 14, 1959, invasion from Castro's Cuba. And before a howling, rifle-waving crowd of 10,000, Tavera spewed hatred at the U.S. "There will not be peace until the last invader is destroyed and the last Yankee property is seized," he cried...
...TIME missed the most important feature of our observations of the Icelandic volcano [June 11]. We found that the process responsible for the volcano lightning does not occur in the volcano cloud, as had previously been supposed, but instead takes place underground before the hot eruption gases escape into the atmosphere...
...same, Bogalusa remained a sleeping volcano. Last week it erupted with a sickening blast. Deputies Moore and Rogers were cruising in their police car one night near the hamlet of Varnado, seven miles north of Bogalusa. An old pickup truck caught up with them from behind. Shotgun bursts smashed the deputies' rear window. Then the truck drew abreast of the car. A second volley ripped out. It caught Rogers in the shoulder and blew Moore's head open...
...scientists' instruments showed a strong charge of positive electricity in the plume just before the flash. After the flash, the plume was neutral or negative, building up a positive charge before the next flash. This happened repeatedly without any thundercloud forming in the vicinity, proving that the volcano alone was generating the electricity. Just how it did this is still uncertain. In some cases, the positive electricity was created when a high-speed jet of ash-laden volcanic steam shot up through sea water; yet clean steam, formed when lava flowed quietly into the sea, also contained a charge...
...plumes of steam and ash that rise from many volcanoes are often shot through with brilliant lightning flashes. But these violent bursts of electricity are usually blamed on conventional thunderclouds pushed up by the heat of the eruption. Curious to learn whether a volcano can make its own lightning, without "thunderclouds, a team of U.S. and Icelandic scientists studied the volcano that is forming the new island of Surtsey off the coast of Iceland. In Science, they report that they rode a fishing boat to within 250 yds. of the roaring vent, and flew in an airplane close...