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...Beyond Wirtz. In nominating a man to succeed Goldberg as Labor Secretary...
Kennedy again acted swiftly: he tapped Goldberg's No. 2 man, Under Secretary W. (for William) Willard Wirtz. Lawyer Wirtz, 50, is a veteran Washington hand who became a member of the War Labor Board at 31. As a law professor at North western University from 1946 to 1954 and a law partner of Adlai Stevenson's from 1955 to 1961, he specialized in labor law, served as an arbitrator in many labor-management disagreements...
...school in 1950, went to work as an administrative assistant to Illinois Governor Adlai Stevenson after a spell as clerk to the late Supreme Court Chief Justice Fred Vinson. An aggressively loyal Stevensonian, Minow campaigned for the Governor (now his fellow partner in the law firm of Stevenson, Rifkind & Wirtz) in both 1952 and 1956, did his best to try to persuade Adlai not to fight Kennedy for the 1960 presidential nomination...
Shoes & College. Launched last fall, the new setup (budget: $1,400,000) is run by able, crew-cut Superintendent Morvin A. Wirtz, 40, a therapy expert with a doctorate in special education. His sprawling domain covers 496 square miles. It has 25 buses that cover 2,500 miles a day, 156 special teachers, and six small buildings. (A recent tax boost will raise three big buildings.) Wirtz is also responsible for speech training (6,000 students) in regular schools, but the handicapped are his chief concern. Says he: "We have the potential for developing the best special-education program...
...first time, 150 children with IQs from 25 to 48 have begun learning simple tasks under the guidance of patient teachers. "I've seen children eight years old who couldn't tie their shoes," says Wirtz. "Here they learn in two weeks." Normally intelligent aphasics, unable to speak because of brain damage, have mastered the gift of language. The deaf and the crippled, unable to get proper training before, now get it as a matter of course. For those with orthopedic ailments, such aids as electric typewriters free them to use their minds. Dozens of handicapped children...