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Work Is the Key. Mary Elizabeth Switzer has spent 46 years in government, the last 17 as the highly successful head of the Vocational Rehabilitation Administration, which aids the handicapped. "She's a dynamo," says Gardner. Breezy and humane, she is also a tough in-fighter known in the cautious corridors of government for her outspoken skill in dealing with timid planners. "She's the most sophisticated bureaucrat in the business," says Connecticut Senator and former HEW Secretary Abe Ribicoff, "a do-gooder who really knows...
...director, Miss Switzer will draw the same $26,000 annual salary as before, though she will now hold down the biggest administrative job of any woman in government. At a time when the whole philosophy of welfare is undergoing thorough reassessment, she is the first to admit the shortcomings of the present system. The trouble with most welfare programs, she admits, "is that it is easier to support people on relief than to come to grips with the problems that put them there." Agreeing with critics who charge that welfare programs put a "premium on not working, rather than working...
...address to over 600 doctors, nurses, and other personnel, Miss Switzer did not directly discuss Ivy League admissions, as she did afterward, but she still sharply criticized the Ivies. After praising the University of Illinois (which has 138 wheelchair students) and other schools for their special facilities, she sighed, "I'm always impressed by the absence of Ivy League colleges in these special arrangements...
...Dana L. Farnsworth, director of UHS, spoke next and departed from his prepared statement for a moment to admit that the "needle that she [Miss Switzer] aimed in our direction was deserved and accurate...
...League, according to Miss Switzer "takes a pessimistic line: the student should not be admitted if he will have too much trouble adjusting to [the life of] the college community." Miss Switzer conceded that there have been exceptions. "After all," she said, "Helen Keller went to Radcliffe...