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Early results were reported to the U.S. Health, Education and Welfare Department's Administration on Aging, which finances his work. DeVries adds the usual warning that indiscriminate, unsupervised exercise may be dangerous to potential heart-attack victims. By June he hopes to have laid a foundation for individual exercise prescriptions. "If we can develop the beginning of a pharmacopoeia of exercise," he said, "we will accomplish what we set out to do." And hearten panting joggers as well...
...Government produces $150 million worth of statistics a year on everything from coal production to babies. Many of these figures form the basis of the President's annual Economic Report, a key aid to businessmen and Government planners in measuring the nation's economic health. Now a task force of experts has shown how this mountain of figures, plus a number of critical new ones, could be used by social scientists to prepare an annual report that would measure the quality of American life-not how much but how good...
This is the basic argument of a farewell gift to President Nixon by the Johnson Administration: a 198-page volume called Toward a Social Report, prepared under the direction of Mancur Olson, an economist with the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Two years in the making, the study charges that while the U.S. has-in theory, at least-learned how to regulate its economy, it has been ill-prepared to predict riots or determine its social needs and goals. Toward a Social Report contends that systematically marshaling "social indicators" would provide the nation with a working tool...
...more decorous. Thus, at a student-power conference held last week on the campus of the Northfield and Mount Hermon Schools in Massachusetts, 150 students from 40 private schools politely complained about empty rules and outmoded customs to a panel of four psychiatrists and psychologists from the Harvard University health services. In essence, the students said that they were isolated from real life and denied a big enough voice in curriculum planning and school discipline. Teachers and headmasters, they said, made a point of minimizing racial and cultural differences; and in the process they squander one of the greatest advantages...
...professor in the School of Public Health is flying to Nigeria tomorrow with a non-political, fact-finding United States mission which will assess the food and medical needs of both Nigeria and Biafra...