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...decided. To Gettysburg came couriers carrying freshly typed drafts; back they sped to Washington, with here and there a penciled Eisenhower notation. Occasionally along the road the couriers passed higher-level visitors inbound to the farm. The week's first: Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare Marion Folsom, who came for final approval of HEW's four-year plan for aid to scientific education (see EDUCATION). One day, comfortably dressed in a checked sports shirt and sports jacket, Ike sat at a coffee table for two hours with Budget Director Percival Brundage and Science Adviser Dr. James...
...memorandum to the President, Secretary Marion Folsom suggested that a $79 million grant be given the National Science Foundation, which now carries on many of the kinds of programs HEW hopes to foster. Thus, HEW itself would be left with only $145 million the first year to give U.S. education the boost it so badly needs...
...Urgency. When it came time next day to present domestic proposals to Republican leaders, the only Cabinet member with a ready-to-deliver program was Labor Secretary James Mitchell (see LABOR). Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield renewed his pitch for postal rate increases. Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Marion Folsom promised to develop some sort of plan to improve U.S. scientific training (significantly, Folsom said nothing whatever about the Administration's last school construction program, which was killed in the House). Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson talked about saving $500 million by eliminating the acreage reserve section of the soil...
Though President Eisenhower offered no definite plan for encouraging bright students, Health. Education & Welfare Secretary Marion Folsom hinted that the federal funds that now go into the vocational education program might well be used to raise straight academic standards. The University of Michigan set up a Special Science Advisory Committee in the hope of finding ways to increase the number of science Ph.D.s by 50%. New Mexico Superintendent of Public Instruction Georgia Lusk proposed that high school science and math requirements be doubled. But while New York City was also making noises about increasing science requirements, it was still trying...
...recommended three injections, 22 million have had two, and 11 million have had one; 9 million remain unvaccinated. Among the 42 million in the 20 to 40 age group, 28 million remain unvaccinated, but distributors and druggists now have 23 million shots in stock. Said HEW Secretary Marion B. Folsom: "If people will use the vaccine available, it is possible to give paralytic polio a knockout blow within the next year. It will be a tragedy if, simply because of public apathy, vaccine which might prevent paralysis or even death lies on the shelf unused...