Word: hewed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have appeared to waffle it," fretted HEW Secretary Robert Finch. Some people in the Food and Drug Administration, he said, "have been overzealous" in their warnings, while "others have gone too far the other way." Finch had good reason to be disturbed; there was growing confusion last week about the latest flare-up in the controversy over the safety of a substance that millions of Americans consume daily: the artificial sweetener, cyclamate...
Although NIH usually sets the amount of grants for each project individually, HEW officials have-ordered an across-the-board five percent cut in continuing projects and a ten percent one for new projects. Inflation has increased the expense of research about ten percent over last year...
...punishment. "Most parents won't defend a drug user?until he's their son," says Stanford University Psychologist Jean Paul Smith. However, the experts have become increasingly concerned over excessive drug penalties. Dr. Roger Egeberg, the Nixon-appointed Assistant Secretary of HEW for Health and Scientific Affairs, says that the laws governing marijuana "are completely out of proportion" to the dangers of the drug. Declared the Mental Health Institute's Dr. Yolles in his testimony last week: "I know of no clearer instance in which the punishment for an infraction of the law is more harmful than the crime...
Until the Nixon Administration granted it a year's respite, Leake County was scheduled to integrate its schools this fall in accordance with a plan drawn up by HEW's Office of Education. Under the program, one of the county's seven "attendance centers," or groupings of schools for grades one through twelve, would be abolished, while two presently white centers would become integrated high schools. Three Negro centers and one white one would become integrated elementary schools. Attendance at all would be governed only by residence...
...list included the former dean of the University of Southern California Medical School, Roger O. Egeberg, who is now HEW Assistant Secretary for Health...