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First sign that all the "Little Hells" were let loose was the presence of boiling water in the town drains. The nearby volcano was entirely quiet and remained so, but hour by hour the "Little Hells" increasingly erupted, finally produced what was in fact a squirt quake but made headlines throughout the world as an earthquake, "the worst earthquake there has ever been in El Salvador...
...understood more clearly than the others: "Her generation was born on a volcano. When they were six, their fathers went to war and their mothers went to live with their parents, or sent their children to them and nursed the wounded ... or took a two-room flat instead of the old eight-room one, or moved with their children to some sordid little hotel of some little town behind the front where their husbands were in the hospital, or fled from scurrying troops, or wandered from a modest bourgeois home to the luxury of a ministerial mansion, or into exile...
...definition of "insurrection" and comparing C. I. O.'s Chairman John L. Lewis to Mussolini, "the unscrupulous and arrogant dictator of whom it has been said he suffers at times from a rush of blood to the head, an extravagant rage, a surge of destructive wilfulness. Like a volcano he spouts flame and burning lava, spreading poisonous gases over the countryside...
After six days on the volcano, President Sacasa announced: "You may say for me that I was not the man for the situation because of my horror of violence and bloodshed. They may accuse me of weakness but never of unworthiness. It would be undignified to continue as President." Then he and his brother. Supreme Court Justice Federico, descended into the capital, entrained for the coast and exile in Salvador. Gloated General Somoza: "This has been a bloodless revolution and there are no hard feelings." The General spoke broadly. Sixteen were killed...
Palm Springs (Walter Wanger) is an attempt to commercialize the publicity which fan magazines and travel agencies have lavished on a colony of luxury hotels perched on the rim of an extinct volcano in the desert 125 miles from Los Angeles. The narrative concerns the efforts of Joan Smyth (Frances Langford) to snare a rich husband (David Xiven) in order to repay her father (Sir Guy Standing) for his sacrifices in earning a living as a gambler to provide her with the luxuries of a fashionable school. She ends by marrying Slim (Smith Ballew), owner of a dude ranch...