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...fissure 150 yds. by 5 yds. was discovered in the state of Guerrero, about 200 miles south of Mexico City. Smoke still poured ominously from the crack. Frightened peons believed not only that it marked the source of the earthquake, but also that it might turn into an erupting volcano and cause further shocks. The still-disturbed earth shook Mexico City with nearly 100 tremors during the week. Although many of them were so slight that they could be sensed only on a seismograph, the worst one was two-thirds as strong as last fortnight's big jolt...
Crumbs from the Table. Picasso has been called "a volcano in constant eruption," and his continued volcanic - and unpredictable - activity has made him a phenomenon almost unique in the history of art. No other artist has ever commanded so wide a fame in his own lifetime. His name is almost a synonym for modern art. His works have set off debates in Levittown living rooms, rocked the cafes of Montmartre, built up pressures in Moscow. If a friend in need asks for help, Picasso can manufacture money simply by sketching a few lines on the back of a menu...
...Death is final. A revolver shot finishes off. The not completely achieved is life." Beauty, as the world knows it, has long since ceased to interest him. "What is the beautiful?" he exclaims. "One must speak of problems in painting!" Such rumblings give the art world warning that the volcano is still alive, may erupt again before the world's astonished eyes. The most demanding commission of his career is now directly ahead of him-a huge mural for Paris' new headquarters for UNESCO. What its subject will be Picasso does not hint. But until the final revolver...
Gibraltar into Volcano. But if Policyholder Shanks is as predictable as the dawn, Prudential President Shanks is not. In the insurance industry, he has erupted with such force, in the pursuit of new ways to sell insurance and new ways to invest the Pru's billions, that he has turned the Rock of Gibraltar, the company's famed trademark, into something resembling a volcano. By dint of his ideas and exertions, Shanks has not only become one of the most respected spokesmen for U.S. life insurance, but has also made the Pru, whose head offices are in Newark...
...turn of the century Congress earnestly debated whether the U.S. should build the projected canal through Panama or Nicaragua. One highly imaginative but possibly decisive argument against Nicaragua was that its volcanoes might menace the canal, and an enterprising Panama-route lobbyist drove the point home by sending members of the U.S. Congress Nicaraguan postage stamps showing a volcano in eruption...