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...Verrett's chick-embryo work, and the publicity she obtained for it, were not a factor in the decision to restrict, and later ban, the use of cyclamate in the U.S. An official of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, in explaining HEW'S action, said, "It has nothing to do with previous studies of the effect of cyclamates on chick embryos or on studies of rat chromosomes in tissue culture...
...more than a year, the Missouri Synod has been torn by an ever deepening division between the church's conservatives, who hew to a strictly literal interpretation of the Bible, and its moderate liberals, who more readily use modern methods of biblical criticism and tend to view some supposedly historical passages (the Garden of Eden story, for example) as religious myth. At the Synod's convention in New Orleans last year, the conservatives consolidated their hold on the denomination by returning the Rev. Jacob A.O. ("Jack") Preus to the church's presidency and winning a majority...
...HEW has stopped short of urging present Dalkon users to switch to another method of contraception immediately. But it is unlikely that physicians will prescribe Dalkon Shields for a while. Yielding to the request of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the manufacturer has agreed to take the device off the market...
Some federal officials agree that attempts to apply equal opportunity in the loftier reaches of academe have been somewhat ill considered. But Dr. Mary M. Lepper of HEW's Office for Civil Rights counters that too often "women and minorities are being hired and let go -it is a revolving door." She adds that Lester's complaints about ruptured faculty traditions and standards are "based in mythology." In fact, surveys have shown that from 1968 to 1972, the number of blacks on college faculties increased only from 2.2% to 2.9%, the number of women from...
...Stanley Pottinger, 34. A politically conservative, Harvard-trained lawyer from Ohio, Pottinger joined the Nixon Administration almost five years ago. He spent most of 1970 traversing the South for HEW, helping complete the integration of public schools. As Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Justice Department's civil rights division since 1973, he played a key role in reopening the Kent State investigation and started an Office of Indian Rights. Pottinger points out that in the last 18 months, "we've filed more [civil rights] suits than in any comparable period in the division's history...