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...Bible says Thou shall grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness.' One feels occasionally that for us it is that kind of noonday." Thus, in a speech at the University of North Carolina last week, John Gardner, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, articulated the Administration's concern at the rancorous tone that is now so pervasive in America. "More and more," said Gardner, "hostility and venom are the hallmarks of any conversation on the affairs of the nation...
...review of Brian Gardner's Mafeking [Sept. 29] makes no mention of an aspect of the siege which still is of interest. This was the printing and issuance, in Mafeking, of a special pair of "siege stamps" which were notable as being among the first, if not the first, examples of postage stamps printed by photographic reproduction...
Though Part B of Medicare has worked just about as well as Part A, it is also hopelessly in the red. Under the original law, HEW Secretary John Gardner was required to announce this week what the premium rates would be for 1968 and 1969. Last week he begged off, and both houses of Congress scurried to pass a reprieve bill, giving the Administration until Jan. 1 to decide what rates will become effective next April 1-most likely $4, depending partly upon what services Congress decides to cover...
Even at this distance in time, to say anything less than laudatory about the founder of the Boy Scout movement may seem like sneering at motherhood, or burning draft cards. But now that historians are forwarding overdue accounts to the once-Empire, it probably had to happen. Brian Gardner, a young Englishman who has given up journalism for history, deserves a merit badge for his neat hatchet job on Lord Baden-Powell of Gilwell...
...engaged in games, sketching and composing his fanciful reports to London. It seemed almost a pity when a column under Colonel Bryan ("The Mahout") Mahon rode into town to effect the celebrated relief. The whole Empire went gaga. In London, "Mafeking Night" lasted five days. It was, writes Gardner, "a vast and apparently uncontrollable upsurge of joy, nationalism, and mended pride...