Word: hungers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Senate, parts of the Nixon program could easily get lost, distorted or delayed as ambitious Democrats eye 1972. Maine's Muskie will want to keep his brand on the environmental controls he has long championed. South Dakota's George McGovern will push the war on hunger. Ted Kennedy will be seeking national health insurance. Iowa's Harold Hughes has some ideas about combatting drugs and alcoholism. Oklahoma's Fred Harris wants to shape family assistance his own way. Indiana's Birch Bayh will continue to guard the pass on Nixon appointments...
...Life correspondent, has penned a six-month diary account of the production of Il Maestro's extravagant, phantasmagoric bore. As Fellini claimed, the director did most of the creative work for the project in the scripting stages; thus, the detailed production notes are particularly fruitless, except for those who hunger for glimpses of the Great Man in action. As recounted by Hughes, the sight simply isn't that inspiring...
Later, in a formal living room once the main set of a CBS documentary, "Hunger, U. S. A.," Mayer wiped a squash stain from his suit and showed me the bound volumes of his 400 published articles on the human hunger and thirst mechanisms, and his definitive book on obesity. Above the mantel piece hung a portrait of his father Andre in World War I uniform. The soldier of the portrait was the first scientist to relate human behavior to measurable physiological changes. Although the son Jean studied history and philosophy as a 17-year-old senior at the University...
Since 1968, when he served as chairman of the National Council on Hunger and Malnutrition, scientist Mayer has become the spokesman for nutritionist muckrackers in the United States. Asked by Nixon to organize the first White House Conference on Food, Nutrition, and Health, Mayer tried to emphasize that Americans, especially old people and single women with small children in both the North and the South, still starve. "More than ten per cent of our total population," he said. At the Conference Mayer pointed out that the very poor in rural areas were not on welfare. He named 500 counties...
Despite Massachusetts, which more than any other state allows its hungry poor to starve, Myer says, "We could wipe out hunger in the United States within a year if we tried. Last year we spent $1.5 billion on our food programs and over $5 billion on our farm price support programs. We have the resources and are capable of the task. It is not a question of whether we can wipe out hunger, but when, or if we want to . . . In Massachusetts no one cares. Maurice Donabue, the one man who supported action, no longer holds a state office. "Biggest...