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Senate foes want to transfer the agency's most lauded program, Head Start, to the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. HEW, which opposes such precipitous transfers, may also get VISTA, the Community Action Program's Upward Bound, and neighborhood health centers. Legal services may go to the Justice Department, which does not want them. The Senate also may give the Job Corps to the Labor Department...
Pinched Budget. Head Start administrators see their problem in the fact that under HEW the individual states would control the program and possibly curtail its scope. Traditional support for state control is one reason for the longstanding Republican opposition to OEO. When Head Start proved to be not only a resounding success but also a catalyst for integration, Southern Democrats joined the opposition. Now OEO fears that segregationists would deliberately downgrade the program in the South...
...uses gravity feed to save pump costs. He has fluid strengths tested manually instead of by sophisticated and expensive gadgets. How safe is this penny-pinching corner-cutting? Losing one patient a year, the unit has a 3% mortality rate, against a national average of 20% reported by HEW...
When the President fills vacant posts, appointments have an odor of the payoff. James McCrocklin, new Under Secretary of HEW, is a former president of Southwest Texas State College, which boasts one really distinguished alumnus, named Johnson. The new Ambassador to Australia, Bill Crook, is known as a "good guy," but he is also a Texan. The fact is, not many Washingtonians-or Americans-really care now who gets the Johnson...
...captain in World War II and Korea. So are Pulitzer Prizewinning Cartoonist Bruce Shanks of the Buffalo Evening News and Phil Santora of the New York Daily News, not to mention Newsday Publisher Bill Moyers, L.B.J.'s former press secretary. On the list too are Arthur Schlesinger and HEW ex-Secretary John Gardner, Viet Nam Negotiator Cyrus Vance and Presidential Aide Walt Whitman Rostow...