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Tight Control? While the foundation was busy with its needles, U.S. Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Oveta Gulp Hobby belatedly gathered 100 experts in Washington for a conference on allocation of vaccine and enforcement of any controls that might be ordered. Represented were her own department, the National Foundation, state and county health officers and medical societies, and the six firms licensed to manufacture the vaccine. Conference chairman was Dr. Chester Keefer, top medical aide in HEW. Assorted politicians, some labor unions and newspapers were clamoring for rigid federal centre's. But the conferees had been warned in advance...
Last week the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, Oveta Gulp Hobby, took the wraps off the Administration's health program. The plan, which the President sent to Capitol Hill, is an expanded version of the one Congress talked about but failed to pass last year...
...politicians filed in for dinner, and more than 700 guests came to dance at the annual congressional reception. During the week, five special messages were packed off to Capitol Hill, while the last decimal points were checked on the sixth and biggest message - the budget (see below). One day Oveta Gulp Hobby clicked in with a bundle of charts and diagrams for the President's message on health, just as Economic Adviser Arthur Burns deposited a stack of data for the annual economic report. More than 175 reporters showed up at the presidential press conference, threw questions that ranged...
...20th century, journalism is increasingly the path to politics, as the law was in the 19th. The century's most famous journalist-politicians are Clemenceau, Churchill, Lenin and Mussolini. Some others: Italy's Alcide de Gasperi, Texas' Oveta Gulp Hobby, Ohio's Warren Harding, Brazil's President Café Filho, Britain's Richard Grossman, Illinois' Frank Knox, Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg and Blair Moody, Washington state's Warren Magnuson, South Dakota's Francis Case, Oklahoma's Mike Monroney, Idaho's Henry Dworshak, Louisiana's Edward Hebert...
...largely with his own and his brothers' money, two private organizations to stimulate Latin America, one for technical assistance, the other to supply venture capital (mostly for agricultural enterprises). These operations served as pilot plants for the Point Four program. Having helped Ike and HEW Secretary Oveta Gulp Hobby reorganize the Government's newest Cabinet department, Rockefeller was ready for a broader assignment. Ike gave it to him, directing him to help the U.S. "seek to join with all peoples in a common effort to achieve and sustain the basic essentials of human dignity...