Word: hewes
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Headed by Dr. Philip R. Lee, who was an expert practitioner and careful prescriber in Palo Alto before he joined HEW, the group declared that "appropriate prescribing" means "the right drug for the right patient at the right time, in the right amounts, and with due consideration of relative costs." The failure of many doctors to achieve this ideal, said the group, traces back to medical schools, most of which give only one course in drugs and their use. Later, in practice, the physician gets most of his information on drugs from manufacturers' promotional material...
...give his venture prestige, Barish shrewdly enlisted as directors of GRAMCO Ltd. not only Salinger but half a dozen other Government aides. Among them: former HEW Under Secretary Ivan Nestingen, former Commerce Department Executive John Stillman and former White House Assistant Richard Donahue. As chairman, a role that he assumed on leaving Continental...
...sports shirt and goes to the office." Only by exercising their ingenuity do any members of Lyndon Johnson's Cabinet beat the system to organize makeshift vacations for themselves. Transportation Secretary Alan Boyd forgets horsepower and highways by bicycling on towpaths along the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. HEW Secretary Wilbur Cohen cuts wood to "work up a good sweat and work off my hostilities," while Interior Secretary Stewart Udall makes it part of his job to explore his 28,051,328-acre domain in the National Parks System. Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler, who had a gall bladder operation earlier...
John W. Gardner is a political man for all seasons. The chairman of the Urban Coalition, he is a Republican who served under both Democratic Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, spending 21 years as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare in Johnson's Cabinet. When Gardner was HEW Secretary, Johnson effusively declared that he "can take you up on the mountain and show you the promised land. And what's more, he can lead you there." This modest book is a collection of excerpts from Gardner's speeches and writings, including quotes from his two earlier works, Excellence...
Pinched Budget. Head Start administrators see their problem in the fact that under HEW the individual states would control the program and possibly curtail its scope. Traditional support for state control is one reason for the longstanding Republican opposition to OEO. When Head Start proved to be not only a resounding success but also a catalyst for integration, Southern Democrats joined the opposition. Now OEO fears that segregationists would deliberately downgrade the program in the South...