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Financial officials attempt to justify shifting the University's financial burden onto students, claiming that other income sources have been drying up. The Nixon and Ford administrations slashed HEW grants and other government contracts; on the other hand, Harvard last year received more money from the government, corporations and other givers than any university in the country. The depressed stock market of 1973-74 put a dent in the University's endowment, but with the recovery last year Harvard's endowment regained its position as the nation's highest. At $1.48 billion the endowment is at its historical peak...
...answer the question, HEW's new Secretary, Joseph Califano, quickly assembled a panel of experts, chaired by Dr. John H. Knowles, president of the Rockefeller Foundation. During briefings by health officials, the panel was presented with a persuasive statistical argument: deaths from Guillain-Barré had occurred in about one out of every million high-risk people vaccinated. By contrast, there were 1,260 deaths per million high-risk people who came down with A/Victoria flu last year. In other words, the chance that an uninoculated person would die from A/Victoria flu was many times greater than that an inoculated person...
...University received the grants from the regional HEW office after applying for work-study funds other schools had not spent. The application for such funds is a standard one, but Lawrence E. Maguire '58, director of student employment, was surprised at the size of the grants...
Sanders and Dr. Howard H. Hiatt, dean of the School of Public Health, are apparently among the top three or four candidates for the post of assistant secretary for health in the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW...
Sanders is playing his cards carefully. He has not said definitely whether he will take the HEW post if offered it--he seems to want assurances from the Carter administration that the issue of health, which he feels has been relatively neglected so far, will get higher priority...