Word: hewed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Several large universities-including Princeton, M.I.T., and Yale-have learned in the last few months that HEW is serious about the clause. Each of them received a letter from HEW asking for evidence of "affirmative action" before Federal contracts would be renewed...
...Administration brought last week's ruling upon itself. Last July, Nixon settled upon a desegregation policy that would concentrate upon progress through court orders rather than through Washington's second available weapon, the withholding of Health, Education and Welfare Department funds from noncomplying school districts. In August, HEW Secretary Robert Finch, supported by Attorney General lohn Mitchell, granted 33 Mississippi school districts a grace period of three months, until Dec. 1, to adopt a HEW-drawn plan for desegregation. Actual integration would have been delayed even further...
...that, at least in the U.S., pills and other contraceptive devices will soon be available to every couple that wants them. Yet even then, the nation's population will keep growing at an alarming rate. The reason is simple but often overlooked, according to Dr. Roger O. Egeberg, HEW's Assistant Secretary for health and scientific affairs. "The typical American family," he told a Planned Parenthood conference last week, "will elect to have three children...
Only last August an HEW expert, Dr. Gregory Anrig, submitted plans for each of the school districts that he described as "educationally and administratively sound both in terms of substance and in terms of timing." Why did the Government decide to block those plans this year? Leonard says that it was because HEW needs additional time to study and perhaps refine them. Another report, by William E. Cresswell, former administrative assistant to Senator John Stennis, claims that the Nixon Administration traded a delay in desegregation for Stennis' vote on its ABM approval (TIME, Sept...
Markert told the News that a friend in the NIH had nominated him for a panel and that he had been rejected as a security risk. Normally, scientists do not know when they are nominated for NIH or HEW positions and therefore cannot know if they have been blackballed...