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Representatives of the Department of Health. Education and Welfare (HEW) investigating Harvard's hiring policies cut short their inquiry and left Cambridge Tuesday when the University Personnel Office refused to open its files to the investigators...
...HEW officials-who asked not to be named-said yesterday that they will send a letter to President Pusey by today asking that the tiles be opened. If the investigators do not gain access to the files, they will submit a report to their Department based on their present information, which they said is at least partially negative...
Unquestionably, it was time for Richard Nixon to be heard from on the subject of school desegregation. The Administration's attempt to delay court-ordered desegregation in Mississippi, the firing of a determined liberal who headed HEW's civil rights division, the President's own repeated criticism of busing children to force integration-all had raised confusion about just where the White House stood on one of the nation's most serious and emotion-laden issues. In an 8,000-word statement, the President last week delivered his message: desegregation yes; integration no. Where official barriers...
...only four in the House and none in the Senate. On the policymaking levels of the Executive Branch, blacks now have little influence. Although Lyndon Johnson appointed the first black Cabinet member (Robert Weaver), Nixon has an all-white Cabinet. Nixon has James Farmer as an Assistant Secretary of HEW, but Johnson had more blacks in lower-level positions, topped by Carl Rowan as director of U.S.I.A...
...ironic, says HEW's Egeberg, that some of the most venerable medical schools in the country have not yet recognized the need for this new medicine: "They will have to follow the lead that Meharry is helping to chart, in the way that they train their students and in their approach to meeting the long-neglected health needs of the poor...