Word: kerrs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...action went Philip H. Coombs, former Ford Foundation economist and the new Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs. Coombs started by withdrawing a new $9,600,000 budget request for the center, then got the regents to call in some able pulse takers, including Presidents Clark Kerr of the University of California and John Gardner of the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Their advice: make the center semi-autonomous and give it a chancellor ranking with President Snyder; concentrate on technical graduate studies in the university's strong fields; and make sure that one-third...
...royal cloak left by Kamehameha I that is made of extinct birds' feathers and is now valued at $1,000,000.) Spoehr is also known as a shrewd administrator: he accepted his new $25,000-a-year job only after insisting that the regents carry out all the Kerr-Gardner recommendations, give him full power to aim the center toward "real eminence and distinction." No sooner had the regents agreed last week than President Snyder resigned his own $24,000-a-year job. Said he a bit sadly: "The stage has now been set for the long pull toward...
Under the Kerr-Mills program, the Federal Government matches state funds -a little more than 3 to 1-for hospital, nursing and some doctors' care for those oldsters willing to declare themselves "medically indigent"-that is, possessed of enough resources to live, but not enough for stiff medical bills. There is wide variation among the states' requirements: some set limits on cash reserves as low as $300, can require the liquidation of other assets such as cars, can require homeowners to mortgage their houses to the state, the title to change after the death of both spouses. Kerr...
...system working, each state must pass enabling legislation and vote its share of the money. Eight have done so: Kentucky, Massachusetts, Michigan, Oklahoma. Washington, West Virginia, Maryland and New York, plus the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. Kerr-Mills back ers say the law will eventually cover 2,500,000 old persons, cost the Federal Government $200 million a year...
...each). Beginning Oct. 1, 1962, it would cover 14 million aged people drawing social security or railroad retirement benefits-and skip 2,000,000 not so covered. As the A.M.A. points out, King-Anderson would help some people who might not need help, and would not cover others whom Kerr-Mills helps. King-Anderson proponents reply, rather weakly, that they, too, rely on Kerr-Mills to plug some gaps. (About 2,500,000 are drawing old-age assistance and getting medical care "on the county." In addition, most states give some medical aid to non-indigent aged. Many of these...