Word: volcano
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...explosion of the Indonesian volcano Krakatoa sent out air waves that registered easily on the crude barographs of the period. Big as the Soviet bomb was, its waves were far weaker than the volcano's, but the time they took to circle the earth was almost exactly the same: 36 hr. 27 min. Small variations in their speed were due to varying winds and temperatures. Carpenter is now putting the Soviet bomb test to unexpected and peaceful use: he is asking the world's scientists to send him copies of their barograph records so that he can study...
...watch March and Campbell shade in the lights and shadows of this relationship is to see something like acting genius at work. March hisses and rumbles like an active volcano, and his "I am the Lord" is an eruption of molten lava. At times, March seems to take an actorish delight in playing the Lord, but he is awesome when, with magnetic all-seeing eyes, he probes for Gideon's soul in a speck of human dust. Douglas Campbell can be a simple-minded oaf one minute and a Judaic Henry V the next, and his voice ranges even...
...retirement in Washington's Sheraton-Park Hotel, is admittedly the very model of an oldtime, wing-collared Senator. But in the Preminger movie, he will play a reticent, somnolent solon from Arkansas-a formidable frustration to a man who once described himself as a "veritable peripatetic bifurcated volcano of language...
...what his palace staff unromantically described as a "routine prefectural tour," Japan's Emperor Hirohito took Empress Nagako back to volcano-surrounded Lake Inawashiro, where the pair spent their August 1924 honeymoon. Reveling in well-remembered sights, the Emperor solicitously helped his wife over craggy spots, won an affectionate smile by graciously passing on to her a bouquet of alpine flowers presented to him by a local botanist. Carried away by such uxorious behavior on the part of the man who once was a god, the chief Imperial chamberlain sighed sentimentally: "Just a sweet, middle-aged couple...
After a professional visit to Alabama in April 1960, veteran New York Times Reporter Harrison Salisbury reported that the city of Birmingham was a smoldering volcano of racial tension, "a community of fear." These and other Salisbury conclusions, published in a two-part series, outraged six Birmingham and neighboring Bessemer city commissioners (plus one police detective), who separately brought libel suits against Salisbury and the Times and asked a total of $3,100,000 in damages. Last week in New Orleans, by holding that a newspaper published in New York City could not be sued for libel in Alabama...