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Like most bureaucracies, HEW had a modest beginning. It was created in 1953 from existing agencies by a cautious Republican President, Dwight Eisenhower. In its first year of operation, HEW's budget was a mere $5.4 billion, of which $3.4 billion went for Social Security. Immediately the department became a political issue, as congressional Democrats pressured Ike to increase funding. He held off until the Soviets launched Sputnik in 1957. Then the first significant breach was made in hold-the-line spending. Fearful that the Russians might surpass the U.S. in science and technology, the President backed the National Defense...
...built a working model of a solar-heated home. He was Inspired when he became cold one night on an environmental field trip. Says he: "I thought about heating and solar energy?no wasted coal or oil or garbage like that, you know. It's just the sun." At Dwight Morrow High School in Englewood, N.J., Mike McGlue, head of the science department, helped set up an energy program. Says he: "We talk about students' homes?insulation, where the house should be placed, what number of B.T.U.s are lost with different types of insulating materials...
...English," says Lee Remick about Kay Summersby, World War II chauffeur for Eisenhower. Remick, 42, will play Summersby in Ike, ABC's upcoming six-hour movie. To research the film, ABC relied on, among other sources, Summersby's posthumous memoirs, Past Forgetting: My Love Affair with Dwight D. Eisenhower. "She admittedly fell absolutely in love with him. That part is dealt with in the movie, but mostly through implication," says Remick. As for Ike's feelings about Kay, word is that the movie may well conclude that discretion is the better part of valor when treating...
...Dwight H. Perkins, professor of Economics at Harvard and chairman of the department here, disagreed yesterday with Brown's view of the case. He argues that MIT "has a different situation from ours. MIT is primarily a graduate school in economics--there aren't many undergrads. For that reason, they can afford to devote more personalized attention to students," he said...
...Dwight Morgan Akron