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...body's master gland, the pituitary, was itself apparently controlled by the hypothalamus, a tiny neighboring area in the base of the brain. But how? Leading separate and often hotly competing teams, Polish-born Andrew Schally, 50, at Tulane University and the VA hospital in New Orleans, and French-born Roger Guillemin, 53, then at Baylor University and now at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, Calif., isolated, identified and synthesized three separate hormones-"releasing factors"-by which the hypothalamus directs the release of key hormones from the pituitary...
Schmandt-Besserat, 43, a French-born assistant professor of art and an expert on the ancient uses of clay, bases her theory on studies started in 1969. For decades archaeologists had been puzzled by the great numbers of small, geometric clay tokens-some as old as 10,000 years-discovered in digs from Egypt to the Indus Valley. Several experts had speculated that these tokens were toys or pieces from a still undiscovered prehistoric game. In 1966 Pierre Amiet, curator of Near Eastern art at the Louvre, suggested that the tokens were an ancient recording system. Schmandt-Besserat agrees. After...
...event, like Aspen itself, brought together the worlds of big-buck entertainment and world-class skiing. The waiflike, French-born defendant had been a lead Folies-Bergère showgirl in Las Vegas. There she met Andy Williams, the Kennedys' favorite crooner, and ended up marrying him and his singing career. After 14 years of marriage and three children, they were divorced in 1975, but by then Longet had moved in with Sabich. The skier, a former world pro champion, was a celebrated bon vivant who owned a $250,000 mountaintop house in Aspen. It was there, while...
TUFTS UNIVERSITY (6,500 students; Medford, Mass.). For French-born Jean Mayer, 56, an internationally known nutrition expert, the presidency of Tufts is but a single line in a seven-page single-spaced curriculum vitae that includes medals for his role in the World War II French Resistance, appointments to numerous presidential commissions and more than a dozen academic posts. Nonetheless, Mayer plans to devote his full energies to Tufts. He hopes to open New England's first school of veterinary medicine there, and in Tufts' graduate schools to emphasize those programs "where jobs will be waiting...
...French-born Claudine was with a Folies-Bergère revue in Las Vegas in 1961. The same year she and Williams were married. They led freewheeling lives for the last few of the 14 years they were married. Gossip often linked her with some of Hollywood's leading actors. After her separation from Williams in 1970, one frequent companion of Claudine's was Los Angeles Tennis Executive Steve Peyton. "Claudine was living with the children at Malibu at the time," a friend recalls. "When she'd go out with Steve sometimes, she'd call Andy...