Word: howe
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Branch Offices. Washington simply has too much to do. When local school officials recently beseeched him for guidance on bussing policies, Education Commissioner Harold Howe flatly-and wisely-refused to oblige them. The Federal Government, he told them, had enough to do without trying to set policies for thousands of school districts, all with purely local problems and prejudices...
...Howe, of course, was right. But the tendency, even among local officials who would be the first to defend states' rights, is to follow the formula: Washington proposes, and Washington disposes. Clearly, the cure lies in a redistribution of powers-with more responsibilities assigned to state and local governments and to private enterprise as well. President Johnson likes to apply the phrase "creative federalism" to this partnership-meaning that Washington will furnish the muscle and the money for the nation's vast social progress while local officials expend their energy and ingenuity on making the programs work...
Other Harvard finishers were: captain Jim Baker (30th) in his best time this year, Dick Howe (50th), Joe Ryan (51th), Jim Smith (82nd), and Tim McLoone (98th...
Harvard coach Bill McCurdy will race the same seven men who ran in the Heps--Hardin, Tim McLoone, Jim Smith, Dick Howe, Joe Ryan, Bob Stempson, and Jim Baker...
...than Stevenson. Even in Mayor Daley's own 11th Ward, where Douglas has proviously rolled up 78 per cent of the vote, he polled only 51 per cent. In the same poll, however, Stevenson got 68 per cent. In general Stevenson holds a comfortable 10 per cent margin over Howe while Douglas trails Percy by about 15 per cent. Stevenson will win; the only question is just how badly will the voter resentment hurt...