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What the scientists were unable to detect conclusively was any sign of life. One chemist placed samples of lunar dust and rock chips under a 300,000-power microscope and found no evidence of lunar organisms, either living or fossilized. Another chemist did detect a trace of carbon, an element essential to life. But it was mainly volatile hydrocarbons that are familiar ingredients of lubricating oil; they might well have come from tools, or from the cabinets in which the samples had been placed...
...might be artificial satellites sent into orbit by Martians. But they would have to be unlike any terrestrial creatures. More than ever, Mars seems hostile to most earthly forms of life. Its surface appears exceptionally dry; its atmosphere seems to be composed largely of carbon dioxide with only a trace of water vapor...
...Boston newspapers had said that the driver--Stephen Pallet, 24--was a Harvard graduate student in philosophy, but a search of University records yesterday revealed no trace of his name. In a statement yesterday, the New England Resistance said that Pallet had worked for them since he graduated from Dartmouth in 1967, and that he had no plans to enter Harvard graduate school...
...flat amount to a state chapter. Individual members are told not to contribute more than $99 to the A.M.A. national fund, thereby excluding themselves from the federal law which requires that contributors giving $100 or more must be named. In any event, state-level gifts are hard to trace: only 43 states have reporting laws; these are honored mostly in the breach...
Cottage Industry. The Guccis-Aldo and two brothers-trace their family's merchant tradition in Florence to 1410. For the past six decades, members of the clan have prospered by selling expensive handcrafted leather goods. In the past year they have begun producing dresses and men's pants in a fabric made of linen and synthetics, and monogrammed with tiny Gs; it matches the material of. a new line of suitcases...