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...safe and that the real problem was to get enough of it to the right places at the right time. Thus the question of controls loomed larger than that of the vaccine's overall safety. Members of Congress drafted bills providing for compulsory federal controls. But Secretary Oveta Gulp Hobby's advisory committee on vaccine distribution adopted a report urging only voluntary controls, relying on "health patriotism." It became increasingly clear that no one in Washington, even in Mrs. Hobby's department, had given any serious thought to the situation before April 12, when the results...
...acted with his peasant's gusto-"with the whole force of his body," one critic wrote, "as naturally as a gamecock fights." Vocal style usually went out the window when he saw a chance to prolong a honeyed mezza voce, a thundering high B-flat, a sob, a gulp or a tearful portamento...
Tight Control? While the foundation was busy with its needles, U.S. Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Oveta Gulp Hobby belatedly gathered 100 experts in Washington for a conference on allocation of vaccine and enforcement of any controls that might be ordered. Represented were her own department, the National Foundation, state and county health officers and medical societies, and the six firms licensed to manufacture the vaccine. Conference chairman was Dr. Chester Keefer, top medical aide in HEW. Assorted politicians, some labor unions and newspapers were clamoring for rigid federal centre's. But the conferees had been warned in advance...
Last week the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, Oveta Gulp Hobby, took the wraps off the Administration's health program. The plan, which the President sent to Capitol Hill, is an expanded version of the one Congress talked about but failed to pass last year...
...filed in for dinner, and more than 700 guests came to dance at the annual congressional reception. During the week, five special messages were packed off to Capitol Hill, while the last decimal points were checked on the sixth and biggest message - the budget (see below). One day Oveta Gulp Hobby clicked in with a bundle of charts and diagrams for the President's message on health, just as Economic Adviser Arthur Burns deposited a stack of data for the annual economic report. More than 175 reporters showed up at the presidential press conference, threw questions that ranged from...