Word: volcano
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bolivia's President Victor Paz Estenssoro, 57, lives on top of a volcano. In his three terms of office since 1952, he has made so many political enemies that he is a virtual prisoner of his bodyguards. He dares not leave the country for fear of a revolution, and he spends so much time keeping order in his bleak and violent Andean nation that he cannot really concentrate on the basic economic problems that cry for attention...
...their ebullience, the Japanese have preferred merely to grow, and so Tokyo continues to spread over the once green Kanto Plain like lava from an erupting volcano. As one Japanese psychologist wrote: "The Japanese is by nature prone to feel lonely, and he cannot bear to lead a solitary existence. He does not wish to live except where he is constantly surrounded by people." The adhesive that holds this mass together is the atmosphere of security in numbers so vast that mere compression affords privacy, of a sophistication and toughness that set Tokyo above and beyond any other Asian city...
...show up. This summer, in waters off Bermuda, the U.S. Navy has carried out an experiment in underwater living. For nine days last month four U.S. aquanauts lived in a cigar-shaped, 40-ft.-long contraption named Sealab 1, resting in the coral-covered crater of an extinct volcano 192 ft. below the surface. The experiment proved that aquanauts could live and work for long periods of time hundreds of feet below the surface, thus eliminating the need for repeated and lengthy decompressions and making practical such sustained jobs as oil-well drilling and underwater mining...
...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...
After her retirement from politics in 1945, she described herself as an "extinct volcano"-but it was not quiet for long. Until very recently, Nancy Astor remained her animated, voluble, rapier-tongued but warmhearted self...