Word: clauses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With his short, rotund figure and his spade beard, Professor Norbert Wiener of M.I.T. looked like a harmless Santa Claus. Instead he bristled with versatility. He was a top-rank mathematician who fathered a new branch of science, an enthusiastic mountain climber, and a facile writer of both fiction and philosophy. He could talk intelligently on almost any subject. When he died of a heart attack in Stockholm last week, his colleagues the world over testified to a special sense of loss. For Wiener was one of a vanishing crew-a first-rate scientist whose curiosity and skills covered...
...hold of the first paragraph of The Real Thing. "To begin with," writes Joe, "I must say I came from the poorest family on earth. As a boy I went barefoot most of the time and never did 1 receive anything at Christmas. I believed in Santa Claus and hung my stocking up, but never found an apple." When he did, of course, it was rotten...
Wearing black tie and tux, Goldwater told some 1,500 members of the blue-chip Economic Club of New York that Johnson's State of the Union address indicated that the new Democratic Ad ministration plans to be a "Santa Claus of the free lunch, the Government handout, the something-for-nothing and something-for-everyone." As evidence, Goldwater cited Johnson's declared war on poverty. Said Goldwater: "America, for most of its years, has waged a war on poverty. And wherever it has waged that war, in factories, in laboratories, in shops, over counters and under...
They said it couldn't be done; they said it would never get done. But just before finishing his rounds Christmas Eve Santa Claus took pity on Harvard students and delivered hundreds of copies of the 1964 CRIMSON' Telephone Directory...
Only till Midnight. Ironically, Communism's grudging Christmas present to West Berlin seems to have originated in the toy factory of Nikita Khrushchev, who resembles Santa Claus only in shape. Chilled by the reception East Germans gave him last summer at the Wall, and aware that the spirit of détente had not yet thawed the frozen pivotal point in East-West relations, Khrushchev talked East German Boss Walter Ulbricht into opening negotiations for the Christmas visits...