Word: clauses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Year's trees" while children babble about "Grandfather Frost." In Hindu India, gifts and greetings are exchanged, and on Christmas Day the shops close and liquor prohibitions are relaxed. In Islamic Morocco, seven-year-old Princess Amina, daughter of the late King Mohammed V, will give a Santa Claus party for 2,000 children and present them all with gifts. In Japan, whose 700,000 Christians account for only .0075 of the population, canny retailers are decorating their stores with Christmas trees in the hope of inspiring a splurge of holiday purchases...
Anthony Ferranti of Ferranti-Dege photography store has declared absolutely that he is not Santa Claus. He is against Christmas and always has been. (See right...
...West Germany's highly respected Zentralblatt für Bacteriologie, Bacteriologist Heinz J. Dombrowski reported that he had revived dehydrated bacteria preserved in rock salt since the Permian Period 180 million years ago. In Britain's Nature, Dr. George Claus of New York University Medical Center and Chemistry Professor Bartholomew Nagy of Fordham University reported finding dead organisms that may have ridden in from outer space aboard meteorites...
Organized Elements. The evidence of extraterrestrial bugs is less convincing. Meteorite connoisseurs have long known that rare meteorites called carbonaceous chondrites contain carbon compounds found in living organisms. Drs. Claus and Nagy got small samples of five chondrites, crushed them in water or glycerol on glass slides and examined them under the microscope. In three samples from two meteorites (Orgueil, which fell in 1864, and Ivuna in 1938) they found large numbers of "organized elements" that do not resemble any known mineral form. Their guarded conclusion: the organized elements may be microfossils that came to earth aboard the meteorite...
Some reputable scientists are impressed by the Claus-Nagy findings. Nobel Prize-winning Chemist Harold Urey of the University of California says after viewing the evidence: "I was very much impressed. It must be taken seriously. Either these objects were contaminated in a most remarkable way soon after they arrived on earth, or else organisms have been transmitted from outside the earth's atmosphere." But Physicist Edward Fireman of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge points out that carbonaceous chondrites are porous and notoriously eager to absorb moisture, including organism-bearing sweat from the hands of people who touch...