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Show Vensuvius Puts on Uly Mood Naples A burst of sullen growling with which the volcano of Vesuvius greeted the formal opening of excavation excava-tion work into the lava of tha buried city of Herculeaneum has developed into a full-fledged minor eruption of spectacular, but not menacing proportions. propor-tions. Awakening after six months of comparative quiescence, the volcano growled and rumbled, fitfully puffing a thick column of pinkish-white steam to tho sky. A correspondent for the Associated Press, standing at the edge of (he crater later, saw thousands of chunks of flaming lava being hurled fifty feet out of the central eruptive cone. Every five or ten seconds there were awe-inapiring rumbles, sounding alternately like the puffing of a gigantic gi-gantic steam locomotive or the breaking break-ing of heavy surf. |