Word: mayer
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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...
...Carter, however, may well turn out to be an overexaggerated fear; in the end, most ethnics will probably stay in the Democratic fold. Predicted Sal Venezia, a city official in Catholic East Boston: "We've had enough of Republicans, regardless of who the Democratic nominee is." Added Joseph Mayer, a Philadelphia plumber: "This Southern Baptist thing is overblown. Some of my best customers are Baptists." But Carter is taking no chances. He plans to take steps to smooth over relations with the church hierarchy and hopes to improve his showing among urban Catholics and ethnics by stressing issues that concern...
Venn is the course's real magic. From the big publishing names she corrals--this year John Updike '54 and Helen Mayer, president of Dell publishing, will attend the program, to name a few--to her personal interest in getting students placed in fields of their choice, Venn insures that students won't regret the $750 tuition...
...fledgling moving picture business-first with a string of penny arcades featuring flickering, hand-cranked "peep-shows," later with storefront nickelodeons. Convinced that the movies' future lay in full-length dramas, Zukor in 1912 split with Loew, who later became one of the founders of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and invested $35,000 in Queen Elizabeth, a cranky, French-made potboiler that starred an aging Sarah Bernhardt -and was a smash success. Zukor maneuvered his Famous Players Film Co. through a series of deals to form Paramount, the first film company with its own theater chain, and began turning...
Student representatives from the House discussed possible candidates for the position with Mayer and Marquand, and were all enthusiastic about the final decision, Mayer said...