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After conferring with Florida officials in Miami and in Washington, Health, Education and Welfare Secretary John Gardner agreed last week that the refugee problem was "the responsibility of the entire nation." Gardner pledged in principle to raise the federal education subsidy from the present 60% of cost for each Cuban child...
...UnAmerican Statements." Gardner's most welcome pledge was that as many Cubans as possible will be encouraged to settle elsewhere. Priority for departure from Cuba will be given to refugees whose relatives live outside Miami, on the theory that the newcomers will follow their kin. Even so, the Federal Government cannot force them to live in any particular place. Of the 2,800 Cubans who arrived by boat before Castro closed Camarioca last week, 2,200 have registered with the Refugee Emergency Center; only 1,450 have agreed to settle outside Miami...
...JACK, by Louise Hall Tharp. Isabella Stewart Gardner, amasser of a magnificent Renaissance art collection, whose portrait was painted by Sargent and whose tea was sipped by Henry James, was in fact a most improper Bostonian-as Mrs. Tharp's sparkling biography proves...
Nerve Center. The responsibility for directing the biggest part of this unprecedented involvement in the education affairs of the country falls to the Department of Health, Education & Welfare, which is run by Secretary John Gardner, 53. A onetime psychology professor, Gardner was president of the Carnegie Corporation, an educational foundation that has distributed $347 million in grants since 1911; he left that post this year to take the job at HEW. The man who is directly in charge of administering the Federal Government's education programs is Gardner's Commissioner of Education, Francis Keppel, 49, a dark, slight...
Keppel regularly runs through a nonstop, eleven-hour working day, conferring with the President or with HEW Secretary Gardner, calling weekend staff meetings, visiting schools, addressing meetings of the Chamber of Commerce or the United Jewish Appeal, or just about any interested group that shows a willingness to discuss the nation's education programs. He is for ever torn between the desire to proselytize and the need to be at his desk. "When a Congressman calls," he says, "I want to be there...