Word: hewed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your cover story on HEW Secretary Gardner [Jan. 20] brought his warm personality and talent into focus. When I began work at Carnegie Corporation in 1963, he was its president, and from that time I have considered it a privilege to know him. The Great Society has an excellent chance of realization if only because Mr. Gardner is one of its patrons...
...Mountain. In his 18 months in office, Gardner has taken hold of HEW with markedly greater determination and sureness than any of his five predecessors. The effect is being felt not only around the capital, but out in the regions as well. Jim Bond, a multimillionaire Dallas businessman who, atypically, is HEW's regional director for a five-state Southwest area (and who annually donates more to charity than he makes at his $22,500-a-year job), concedes that in the past, "I haven't always been as enthusiastic as I should have. But John Gardner...
...take you up on the mountain and show you the promised land. And what's more, he can lead you there." Frequently he compares Gardner with Defense Secretary Robert McNamara. "I thought for some time we ought to take McNamara and move him over to run HEW," says the President. But Viet Nam intervened, and then Gardner came along and proved that he was, in Johnson's words, "a can-do man." Gardner, says the President, "could hold any job in Government...
Major Departure. When asked what he considers his chief accomplishment, Gardner places HEW's wide-reaching advances in civil rights at the top of the list. "For this nation, justice for the Negro is the social problem," he says, and his determination to attach tough guidelines to health and education programs is helping, however slowly, to solve it. It took a decade after the Supreme Court's 1954 school desegregation decision to get 2.5% of the Deep South's Negroes into previously all-white schools. Thanks to HEW's pressure, that figure soared...
...later, the same strange symptoms, complete with blue facial mottling, were reported from Omaha. There was a total of 64 cases, with 30 deaths. The stricken Americans were not such heavy hoisters as the Canadians, but they did average a six-pack a day. Quebec's Dr. Morin Hew to Omaha. Sure enough, a check with a local brewery turned up cobalt. It was eliminated and so was the disease...