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...pops open. High above Acapulco Bay, the Secretary was doing just fine in his first try at this bold new sport. Then the tow rope from the speedboat snapped, leaving ex-Paratrooper Robert Finch to plunge 150 ft. into the drink. "It was great for my education," said the HEW boss, "but not for my health and welfare...
...fault, according to the subcommittee, is the lack of a national health policy to provide form and direction to federal health programs. Under the current setup, even HEW's Dr. Roger O. Egeberg, the nation's top health officer, has effective control over only 22% of his department's budget. To consolidate health programs, the subcommittee has called for a council of health advisers similar to the agencies now dealing with economic and environmental matters...
Suspicion. The committee's decision was both tactical and practical. Mills recognized that welfare systems throughout the country are on the brink of collapse and need more than simple repairs. Also, he was caught off guard by the Nixon message, and suspected a political trap. When HEW Secretary Robert Finch began attacking the Ways and Means Committee in public statements for delaying the welfare bill, Mills came to believe that the Administration, with an eye to this year's congressional and gubernatorial elections, was more interested in a campaign issue than welfare reform. Mills thought that Nixon would...
...Bible and the Great Bible of the 16th century, and those in turn had cribbed liberally from the pioneer English translation of William Tyndale and from the Latin Vulgate of St. Jerome. In modern times, the scholarly and widely used Revised Standard Version of 1952 was consciously intended to hew close to the Tyndale-King James tradition. Both the excellent 1966 Jerusalem Bible and the ambitious but as yet uncompleted Anchor Bible (13 volumes published of the 50 projected) have gone back to original Greek and Hebrew sources. But as a popular work now intended both for broad public consumption...
...created a new man," he argues. Johnson uses more than words to guard man against some of the threats of his self-imposed surroundings. Last spring, for example, after FDA scientists found unusually high levels of DDT in Lake Michigan coho salmon, Johnson helped to engineer a HEW order aimed at phasing out use of the chemical...