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Volcanologists like to analyze the lava of new volcanoes, but getting the lava samples can be a sticky business. Last week two scientific adventurers from San Diego, Adrian Richards and Lewis Walker, told about their dangerous visit to El Boquerón (Big Mouth), the new volcano on tiny San Benedicto Island off the west coast of Mexico. They were the first to set foot on the still-smoking cone...
When they started for the volcano on board the research yacht Observer, they had been told that its activity was dying down. This report, they found, was premature. A great hole had opened in the side of the cone 150 ft. above sea level, and a tumbling flood of orange-hot lava blocks was building a hissing delta. The two men crept as near as they dared and estimated the lava's temperature as about...
...days later, while Richards and Walker were camped at the foot of the cone, the volcano blew its top. A vast cloud of black smoke billowed out of the crater, almost from the spot where they had waded in the lava dust. It rose to a great height; then its steam condensed and fell as a scalding deluge of muddy rain. Richards and Walker escaped in a skiff, rowing madly, and took refuge on a tuna boat...
Bing and Bob, dressed in kilts, sing one number called Hoot Mon. Dorothy Lamour models a succession of silk and cloth-of-gold sarongs designed by Hollywood's Edith Head. There is also a shipwreck, a headhunters' ceremonial, and an erupting volcano. Road to Bali does not always run a smooth comedy course, but it has some diverting detours...
Game of Polo. The Lancashire Fusiliers, only white regulars in the field between the Sudan and South Africa, pushed into the equatorial highlands towering above Lake Nairasha. One detachment of Fusiliers chased a band of Mau Mau up the rain-rutted sides of a 9,000-ft. extinct volcano. A posse of Kenya planters threw the Mau Mau lookouts off guard by staging a mock polo tournament, then suddenly dropped their polo sticks, whipped out rifles and charged the Mau Mau redoubt. From the ridges above came the sweating Fusiliers; behind, the Mau Mau found their retreat...