Science: Boiling Alaska

Father Bernard Rosecrans Hubbard, S. J., head of the geology department of the Jesuit University of Santa Clara, Calif., last fortnight told newsmen and geologists he had discovered that the Aniakchak and Veniaminoff, Alaskan peaks thought to be extinct, are alive. If so, they are the largest active craters in the world.

Last summer Father Hubbard. as he had done for three years prior, took four football players into Alaska for a long geological walk to the end of the Aleutian Islands. Their jaunt took them into the hearts of Aniakchak and Veniaminoff. There they pitched...

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