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Shortly out of Naples aboard the Turkish ship Ankara, Eleanor Tatum saw a spectacular sight: Stromboli's volcano spouting off loud & fiery blasts. She had a brief stop at Athens on her way to Ankara for a visit with her brother, an engineer on the U.S. aid program for Turkey. After a flight back to Italy, she ran across a TIME story in need of a correspondent, covered it, happened by St. Peter's at the right moment to see the Pope at a beatification ceremony, then went on to Paris and London...
...military techniques are where you find them. Last week Drs. M. Ewing and Frank Press, Columbia geophysicists, told how they discovered a practical method of measuring from an airplane the thickness of Arctic ice. They started by studying Krakatoa Volcano, near Java, which had its most famous explosion almost 70 years...
...cause waves in the land and sea. In search of proof, they selected as a "laboratory test" the 1883 Krakatoa eruption, whose mighty bang sent air waves seven times round the earth. One chapter in a fat report by Britain's Royal Society recorded the progress of the volcano's air wave. Another clocked the sea wave, which swept across the Indian Ocean and was measured by tidal gauges as far away as Britain. Oddly enough, both waves were reported in many distant places, including the English Channel, Panama and San Francisco, at the same time...
...Ewing and Press this looked interesting. The air wave and the sea wave did not travel at the same speed or by the same route. Why did they arrive together? Further study of the records showed that only the air wave could be a direct effect of the volcano's explosion. In distant places like England, the sea wave recorded on the tide gauges must have been "induced" by the air disturbance. Here was dramatic proof that events in the atmosphere do affect the sea below...
Then, as it must in all sarong epics, catastrophe intrudes on the idyl. The island volcano (realistically played by Hawaii's erupting Mauna Loa) sends fiery lava streaming into the valley, and Jourdan's bride gets her orders from the kahuna to appease the gods by leaping into the angry crater...