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...whose domain includes responsibility for the health, education and welfare of 203 million Americans risks dangerous overreaching or underachievement. When Boston's Elliot Richardson took over the Department of Health, Education and Welfare eleven months ago from Robert Finch, he faced the added burden of trying to master an often chaotic bureaucracy of 110,000 employees and administering more than 250 different programs budgeted at nearly $70 billion a year. HEW is second only to the Defense Department in cost and third to Defense and the Post Office in personnel. The frustrations of the job have exhausted Secretaries...
...protect the animals. The thousands of letters Annie has sent to legislators and other government officials also helped to promote the 1959 federal statute known popularly as the "Wild Horse Annie Law," which prohibits the hunting of wild horses from airplanes or other motorized vehicles on the public domain. In addition, Annie's lobbying helped establish wild-horse sanctuaries in the Pryor Mountains of Montana and Wyoming and at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada...
...papers, his note was stamped top secret. Even in the Defense Department, however, there are limits. After someone placed a secret marking on a few newspaper clippings dealing with naval matters, an embarrassed Defense Department issued an order (yes, unclassified) directing personnel to leave newspapers in the public domain...
...children's literature written by childless authors. From Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll to Dr. Seuss and Maurice Sendak, the phenomenon persists. The incidence is too high to be coincidental. Perhaps the writers substitute audience for family. Perhaps, like Beatrix Potter, they seem more comfortable in the domain of childhood, where fantasy is the norm and reality the intruder...
...than Pusey, it may not be because he is any more liberal, but simply because he knows his true constituency better, because he will not embarrass them with obstinacy on minor issues, and because he will have their support, and not, like Claudius, have to skulk about his own domain in fear of some treacherous Hamlet in his own camp...