Word: mayers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dewhurst played a jailer's daughter in an off-Broadway revival of Edwin Mayer's 1930 Children of Darkness. Appearing opposite her was a young actor named George C. Scott.Their meeting, which Scott later described as a "bus accident," led to divorces from their spouses and their own marriage in 1959. They bought an 18th century farmhouse in South Salem, N.Y., combining acting with raising a family. In 1963, while Scott was filming The Bible in Italy, he encountered Ava Gardner, and the marriage to Dewhurst dissolved. Four years later, Scott and Dewhurst remarried. In 1971, however, Scott...
...interview following the announcement by Senators George McGovern (D-S.D.) and Charles Percy (R-Ill.) that Mayer will chair the national conference sponsored by the Senate Committee on Nutrition, he said that it will be "difficult to avoid future widespread malnutrition and hunger in the rest of the world...
...Jean Mayer, professor of nutrition and newly named head of the National Conference on Nutritional Policy, yesterday called the outlook for the supply of food in the next 5 years "poor...
...Mayer said the United States, the United Nations, Common Market countries and religious organizations have shipped "plenty of food, probably as much as is necessary" to the six stricken African nations. "The problem now is to reach the distant nomadic peoples who haven't been driven to the cities out of the sub-Sahara...
...There is a question as to whether the famine is the result of a six-or seven-year drought or a massive movement of the Sahara to the south due to overgrazing," Mayer added. He pointed out that from Roman times through the 12th century Libya had been irrigated and fertile. Poor agricultural practices led to Libya's present aridity, he said...