Word: hewed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Senate foes want to transfer the agency's most lauded program, Head Start, to the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. HEW, which opposes such precipitous transfers, may also get VISTA, the Community Action Program's Upward Bound, and neighborhood health centers. Legal services may go to the Justice Department, which does not want them. The Senate also may give the Job Corps to the Labor Department...
...uses gravity feed to save pump costs. He has fluid strengths tested manually instead of by sophisticated and expensive gadgets. How safe is this penny-pinching corner-cutting? Losing one patient a year, the unit has a 3% mortality rate, against a national average of 20% reported by HEW...
When the President fills vacant posts, appointments have an odor of the payoff. James McCrocklin, new Under Secretary of HEW, is a former president of Southwest Texas State College, which boasts one really distinguished alumnus, named Johnson. The new Ambassador to Australia, Bill Crook, is known as a "good guy," but he is also a Texan. The fact is, not many Washingtonians-or Americans-really care now who gets the Johnson...
...captain in World War II and Korea. So are Pulitzer Prizewinning Cartoonist Bruce Shanks of the Buffalo Evening News and Phil Santora of the New York Daily News, not to mention Newsday Publisher Bill Moyers, L.B.J.'s former press secretary. On the list too are Arthur Schlesinger and HEW ex-Secretary John Gardner, Viet Nam Negotiator Cyrus Vance and Presidential Aide Walt Whitman Rostow...
...hauled down an American flag and smashed five windows at the side of the building, though leaders of the march absurdly blamed the press and "the CIA" for the breakage. Still another group of 500 demonstrators marched into the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, refused to budge until HEW Secretary Wilbur Cohen came out of his office to see them...