Word: mayer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from Winthrop and Kirkland, and some of the students on those committees say he seems genuinely interested in their opinions. But last year's appointments--in connection with his remarks on closeness with University Hall, and his last two earlier choices, Martin H. Peretz in South House and Jean Mayer in Dudley House--are suggestive of what Bok's idea of the perfect master...
...thing, no one could accuse Bok's last four choices of being ivory-tower scholars, whatever they might have said about the aristocrats who used to head Houses. Two of Bok's men aren't from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences--Vorenberg is professor of Law, and Mayer is professor of Nutrition at the school of Public Health. At his last press conference, Bok said this year's choices will be from Arts and Sciences, but there are other things...
...four appointments have supervisory or administrative posts for which (with the exception of Mayer) they're probably better known than for their scholarship: Peretz is head tutor of the Social Studies Department, Vorenberg is director of the Center for Criminal Justice, and Mayer is on the Board of Freshman Advisers...
...Mayer said that the world shortage of grain has already been increased by the Arab oil embargo which has raised the price of petroleum, a crucial factor in the production of fertilizers...
...Mayer, who was also chairman of the 1969 White House Conference on Food, Nutrition and Health, said that if the problems of food supply are to be overcome the "control of population is essential...