Word: gardners
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There was no lack of problems in the Department of Health, Education and Welfare when John W. Gardner took over last August. But the biggest mess facing the new Secretary was in the Food and Drug Administration, the agency responsible for the purity and safety of the food, medicines and cosmetics that Americans buy. The mess had been building for decades while the agency rocked along, a cozy bureau for career men whose ambitions were as limited as their powers. Though there have been marked improvements since World War II, what Gardner inherited was an agency that had lagged...
...Life. It took Secretary Gardner a long time to find a man with the right credentials to attack such problems as these and try to put FDA's house in order. Last week he announced his choice...
...recent duty has been as an assistant surgeon general of the U.S. Public Health Service and chief of its famed disease detective branch, the Communicable Disease Center. Earlier he did a good job while on loan as surgeon to the Federal Aviation Agency. What he wants of Goddard, said Gardner, is to "give this agency a new burst of life...
Only a couple of months ago Gardner Ackley, present chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, remarked that "You're soon going to hear a lot more about guidelines." Rarely has any prophet been proved so accurately occult. And last week, as Ackley and his colleagues worked on their annual economic report, they could only be aware that some changes may have to be made in both the principles and the application of the wage-price guidelines...
...year renewable contracts, under which they would become "fiscal intermediaries" between the Government and the nation's 6,471 registered hospitals when medicare goes into effect. Last week, pronouncing the occasion "the beginning of a partnership of great promise," Health, Education and Welfare Department Secretary John W. Gardner awarded the first of these contracts to three organizations that already have health plans covering more than 82 million people: the Aetna Life & Casualty Co. and the Travelers Insurance Companies, both of Hartford, Conn., and the giant Chicago-based Blue Cross Association...