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...except for a few old posters of Mao and Marcuse, a signed photo of Kate Millett and a ritual five-minute recitation at midnight from the Little Red Book, she had given up radical politics altogether. I suspect that she would not have survived at all without wheat germ and a Spiro Agnew voodoo doll. Still, it was worth it. Come graduation, I was, once again, numero uno, besieged by offers of $100,000-a-year partnerships from nine Wall Street accounting firms, invited by Melvin Laird to bring cost accounting back to the Pentagon, and asked to lunch...
LAST summer at the Swedish Nutrition Council meetings in Stockholm, Dr. Mayer proposed that starvation be banned as a means of warfare. "Bacteriological warfare," he says, "was outlawed in the 1920's because it was argued that germ warfare was indiscriminate in its effects on women and children. Actually starvation is not just indiscriminate, but it only affects women, children, and the infirm. Fighting men never starve because they can seize supplies in the territory they patrol." The Swedish government has asked the United Nations General Assembly to act on this ban as well as Mayer's proposal to start...
Shortly after he took charge of the Rockefeller Foundation's wheat-improvement program in Mexico 26 years ago, a young American plant pathologist named Norman E. Borlaug began a momentous series of cross-breeding experiments. With the germ plasm of plants from four different countries, he succeeded in developing a remarkable new kind of wheat that was able to flourish in all of Mexico's widely varied growing conditions. His work quickly put Mexico on the road to self-sufficiency in wheat production. But it had an even more important result: it sowed the seeds of the Green...
...Ph.D. course work, giving an impassioned speech at a faculty meeting during the Columbia University strike and the formation of new Women's Liberation groups. In November 1968, she made a speech at Cornell University. "I wrote a paper called 'Sexual Politics,' which was the germ of this whole book. It was a fiery little speech directed at girls, witty and tart and stuff like that-at least I thought it was. I used to listen to it rhapsodically on tape. It needed a job of editing, but at the time, I thought it was glorious...
...willing to accept the cuts. Still, DuBridge could be an effective behind-the-scenes advocate. He was particularly influential in persuading Nixon to curtail the use of defoliants in Viet Nam. He also played a key role in the President's decision to announce a ban on germ warfare, and he helped to focus attention on environmental problems. But in the face of the Administration's tightfisted mood, it is doubtful whether he could have staved off the research cutbacks even if he had protested more vigorously...