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...HEW officials, including Hale Champion, former Harvard vice president for financial affairs, refused to comment on the status of Richmond's nomination, but Sanford Winston, chief press officer for HEW, said "published reports have not been too far from the truth...
Spokesmen for HEW said earlier that Howard H. Hiatt, dean of the School of Public Health, had been considered for the position...
Appearing before a Senate subcommittee on behalf of the Carter Administration, HEW Secretary Joseph Califano asked Congress to impose federal restrictions on recombinant DNA research, a new form of genetic inquiry involving E. coli. The urgency of Califano's request underlined the remarkable fact that a longtime dream of science, genetic engineering, is at hand -and, some fear, already out of hand. In laboratories across the nation, scientists are combining segments of E. coli's DNA with the DNA of plants, animals and other bacteria. By this process, they may well be creating forms of life different from...
...there is one minor scandal that is still brewing on the sixth floor of HEW's offices on Independence Avenue. On the day of Champion's confirmation hearing, the world learned that Califano hired a private chef for himself and Champion, using a 402-word job description that never mentioned words "chef" or "cook." After answering about ten minutes' worth of reporters' questions about Souza, Walsh, and his own nomination, the ice finally broke...
Champion: Well, uh,...I never had a lunch there (at HEW with Califano) that wasn't working...