Word: mayer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Seven other persons were named in the indictment Tuesday as co-conspirators but not as defendants. They are: the Rev. Daniel J. Berrigan, brother of Philip Berrigan; Sister Beverly Bell; Sister Marjorie Ashuman; Thomas Davidson; Paul Mayer, a former priest; and professor William Davidson of Haverford College...
...Jean Mayer (MAY ARE) is Professor of Nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health. He was born in Paris in 1920 and served as a field artillery officer in the French Army during World War II. He was decorated with the Croix de Guerre and thirteen other wartime citations. In December 1969 Mayer chaired the White House Conference on Food, Nutrition, and Health...
THERE was a time when Popeye was the only one who could tell me what to eat. Last week, in the dining room of a narrow but long Beacon Hill townhouse, Jean Mayer usurped him. Mayer had just complimented his wife on her choice of bread and mentioned that Shana Alexander and the other editors at McCall's thought that his commentary on woman's liberation "was the greatest thing they had seen in years," when he said to me, "You should eat more." Before I could protest he served me up a triple portion of squash...
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...
...Jean Mayer intended to do graduate work in physiology at Harvard when, in 1939, he enlisted in the French Army. In 1941 Mayer found himself barred by the German Army from following DeGaulle to London. He went to Lisbon and from there to the United States. From March 1941 to March 1942 he worked on a chemistry research project at Harvard, waiting impatiently for clearance by the FBI to rejoin the Free French Forces in England. Mayer was reactivated in the spring of 1942 and joined a convoy in the Notrh Atlantic. "I was torpedoed off Halifax soon after...