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...exhibit apparently had an effect. Scores of KGB agents stood quietly by while more than 10,000 spectators inspected some 150 paintings done in a variety of contemporary styles, including abstract, surrealist, impressionist and pop. All of these have been expressly forbidden to Soviet artists, who are supposed to hew to the woodenly representational standards of socialist realism...
...death deals," he told her. "This thing's been going on 100 years. Who are we to shut them down in one hour?" Yet in the asbestos industry alone, 200,000 workers are employed and another 800,000 have been. Among that million workers, a new official of HEW's National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health estimates that there will be 3,000 excess deaths each year for the next 20 or 30 years from cancer of the lung and respiratory disease...
...other highlight of the meeting was a set of proposals for Government action to rein in runaway health-care costs. The proposals, by Wilber J. Cohen, a former Secretary of HEW, included: 1) setting fixed rates for doctors' charges for specific services, and 2) forcing public disclosure of the money that a doctor collects from federal and state medical-aid programs if the total exceeds $50,000. Finally, 16 major labor and civic groups resolved that, "Under no circumstances should funds for human social services be reduced...
Meanwhile, HEW conducts a constant monitoring of the program, evaluating its progress largely by comparing the numbers of women and minorities actually hired with the numbers predicted in the plan. These numbers are a tricky business because they remind many people in universities of quotas, which make academics recoil in horror...
Getting a plan accepted by HEW, for all the trouble it entailed, was the easy part of affirmative action at Harvard. Now the University must learn to live with...