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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...
...economic melodrama. It began on the last day of 1965, when the Bethlehem Steel Corp. announced that it was raising its prices on structural steel by $5 a ton, to an average $119. Poor "Bessie." No sooner had the word hit the wire-service tickers than Gardner Ackley, chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, denounced the increase as inflationary; he later charged that Bethlehem was profiteering from the Viet Nam war. And from his Texas ranch, President Johnson called Bethlehem's move "unnecessary" and "unwarranted...
Born in West Virginia, lanky Jim Duesenberry won bachelor's, master's and doctor's degrees (in economics) at the University of Michigan, roomed for a time with former Treasury Under Secretary Robert Roosa. One member of the board that granted Duesenberry's Ph.D. was Gardner Ackley, his new boss. An Air Force statistician during World War II, Duesenberry rose from private to captain. He joined the Harvard faculty in 1946, soon made his mark with a study of consumer spending that helped to spike fears that consumers would spend too little to fuel the postwar...