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Metabolic Variation. As the reason for his ban, Finch cited new evidence that cyclamates cause cancer in animals. At the same time, he emphasized that there is as yet "no evidence that they have indeed caused cancer in humans." HEW, he said, was being prudent, and will now check other food additives to see whether they may be harmful to human health...
...recalled once having to sign a "loyalty oath" in order to receive travel fare for delivering a lecture at the National Institutes of Health, a unit of HEW. He added, "I've never been asked to serve on an advisory panel...
Among the distinguished research leaders are seven members of the National Academy of Sciences, including Salvatore E. Luria, professor of microbiology at M.I.T., and one of the three Americans awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine last week. Luria had previously refused to serve on HEW review boards until the "tests of political conformity" were abolished...
Robert H. Finch, Secretary of HEW, congratulated Luria by telegram following last week's Nobel presentation. "You have amply earned the gratitude of all Americans," he said...
...Dane G. Prugh of the University of Colorado, chairman of the ad hoc Steering Committee on HEW Clearance, said his group was trying to convince the Department to relax its "unwarranted practice of security investigations for non-sensitive positions...