Word: volcanologists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Others have noted Moyers' capacity for absorbing a blistering rebuke from Johnson with the clinical detachment of a volcanologist measuring an eruption. He can do so because he is uncommonly sure of himself. There is an easy communion between the two men. Johnson kiddingly refers to Moyers as "mah Baptist preacher." Moyers, who was ordained to become a teacher, not a preacher, kids Lyndon right back. As the President tells the story, Moyers one day was saying grace before a White House dinner in such a low voice that he could hardly be heard. "Speak up, Bill!" bellowed Lyndon...
...less surprised by this than Irazú's chief physician, Volcanologist Haroun Tazieff, who was hired by .the Costa Rican government to study Irazú and try to predict its tantrums. Fearing exactly the kind of explosion that occurred last week, he urged that tourists be barred from the crater. Now the authorities have closed the tempting road to the summit...