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...Boston chapter of the National Organization of Women (NOW) filed a supporting suit specifically aimed at Harvard. An investigation by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW) looked into their charges but has not yet released official findings...
...Americans, it is almost an article of faith that the water flowing from their faucets is fit to drink. Last week the Department of Health, Education and Welfare dealt that faith a shattering blow. In a survey of 969 of the country's 23,000 water-supply systems, HEW's Bureau of Water Hygiene found that some 900,000 persons in the tested areas were consuming water dangerously contaminated by such poisons as arsenic, lead, selenium and fecal bacteria. The water supply of another 2,000,000, though safe to drink, was held to be unacceptable in taste...
...Vermont, most of whose water-supply systems "generally exhibit the effects of long-term neglect." The bureau also found that there had been at least 300 cases of "waterborne" diseases in the past three years. After the HEW report was issued, Government health officials followed up by advising 35,555 Vermonters served by 69 "undesirable" systems to boil their water before drinking...
This may explain the ominous note struck by Charles C. Johnson Jr., administrator of HEW's Environmental Health Service, in a foreword to the bureau's report. "As in so many other aspects of our environmental situation," he wrote, "the findings are not reassuring with regard to the future...
...corporation recently canvassed 200,000 Harvard alumni, students, faculty and employees. The answers revealed just how deep the divisions are among Harvard men about the recent uproars in Cambridge. The respondents' first choice was a symbol of Harvard's traditional moderate liberalism: John Gardner, former secretary of HEW and present head of the National Urban Coalition...