Word: mayer
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...dominated" and that only in the last year or so had women been elected to membership. I left the dinner because a crudely sexist toast was given, insulting to women in general and in one allusten, to the woman president of the Stenet in particular. The style of Mr. Mayer's toast was chauvanist in the extreme and degrading not only to women out to the club steward being toasted...
Died. René Mayer, 77, ubiquitous Cabinet minister in the postwar governments of France and its Premier for four months in 1953; in Paris. A businessman (railroads) turned politician. Mayer fled to Algiers in 1943. As a member of the Radical Socialists in the postwar French Assembly, he proved himself a hard-headed technician capable of self-preservation during the Fourth Republic's era of musical-chair governments. In 1955, Mayer was named president of the European Coal and Steel Community, which eventually evolved into the Common Market...
Rich was scheduled to read from her works at the conclusion of Mayer's speech, but instead announced that the Signet had shown itself still to be a male-dominated institution, and thus an inappropriate forum for her poetry...
Rich could not be reached last night for comment on the incident. Mayer, reached in his Boston apartment last night, said. "I don't think this sort of thing belongs in your newspaper...
East River Pop. The majority of nutritionists, though no aficionados of the organic themselves, believe that the trend is beneficial. Jean Mayer, a professor of nutrition at Harvard's Graduate School of Public Health as well as a presidential adviser, thinks that the organic movement has increased public awareness of the chemicals that have become regular ingredients of processed foods. Such knowledge, he feels, has been at least partially responsible for the banning of cyclamates, artificial sweeteners used in soft drinks, and diethylstilbestrol (DES), a synthetic hormone-like substance added to cattle feeds. Both have been linked with cancer...