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...Rural Indians, near San Maria volcano, in Quetzaltenango...
October Ferry to Gabriola, like Malcolm Lowry's generously praised Under the Volcano, is a romantic, convoluted prose journey in quest of an easeful death. It is not a completed novel, however. According to Margerie Lowry, the author's widow, this published version is her "sorting out" of numerous drafts of chapters, paragraphs and even sentences that Lowry began to write in 1946. It started with his notes on a trip to the islands off British Columbia. These became a short story. Then the story grew first into a novella and finally into an amorphous novel full...
Mauna Kea, an extinct volcano towering high above the island of Hawaii, has not erupted in at least 10,000 years. But lately the barren, treeless area near the 13,796-ft. summit has been the scene of another, less menacing kind of activity. After three years of grueling work, construction crews are putting the finishing touches on the highest astronomical observatory on earth...
...rock-strewn road to the summit, and howling blizzards sometimes entirely blocked off lower levels of the route. One snowstorm, in fact, occurred only a few weeks before last week's formal dedication. But by far the worst problem was the thin air at the top of the volcano. Headaches, dizziness and nausea, all symptoms of oxygen deficiency, were constant companions of the work crews. Even men recruited from high-altitude projects in the Rockies could not perform at more than 25% efficiency, if at all. "Some would come up, work a day, and then quit in disgust," recalls...
Many black communities around the land seem sufficiently quiescent on the surface, but that does not mean that their frustrations have vanished. "It's like a volcano," says New York's Ted Gross, a Lindsay aide. "Underneath, it's bubbling." Guerrilla warfare may replace open rioting in the larger cities, as black militants zero in on selected targets in the white community and then retreat to the ghetto. Bombings of police stations by radicals, white or black, have already become a big-city fact of life. Violence is unpredictable: Chicago's blacks did not revolt when...