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...pollutants that contaminate the nation's atmosphere. To combat this growing menace, Congress empowered Health, Education and Welfare Secretary John W. Gardner to limit such pollutants. As a result automobile manufacturers have installed exhaust controls on 1968 model cars. To meet this year's HEW standards, the new control devices must reduce the emission of hydrocarbons and carbon monoxide, major sources of automotive pollution, by 60% and 50% respectively. But even this improvement will be more than counterbalanced as the number of U.S. cars increases each year. Faced with that fact, Gardner last week proposed even tighter standards...
...Where money and medical care are available, infant mortality drops far below the national average, according to a county-by-county survey released this year by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare's Children's Bureau. Fiftysix, or less than 2% of all the counties studied, HEW pointed out, account for an unusually significant proportion of the nation's infant deaths. Included in the 56 are all but one of the U.S. cities with more than 500,000 population and the country's largest Negro and white ghettos...
...help more U.S. infants survive, Congress has authorized $35 million for maternity and infant care in fiscal 1968. And HEW hopes to set up and train a corps of physicians' assistants to provide more thorough care to mothers and infants in low-income areas...
...Justice, State, Labor, and Health, Education and Welfare, plus the Coast Guard (which still picks up about 35 Cubans floating to Florida in "boats" each month), the CIA, and the FBI. But recently the government's efforts have been centralized under the U.S. Cuban Refugee Program, a branch of HEW. But the program has been successful in that American officials report the Cubans have been remarkably quick to adjust to their new surroundings, remove themselves from the welfare lists, and get work...
...Simply Trash." Interior Secretary Stewart Udall says flatly that he has time for nothing less portentous than a presidential message, but an aide has caught him tuning in on the World Series. HEW Secretary John Gardner is a Huntley-Brinkley man and also grabs the 11 p.m. news. Sometimes he watches the Today show on his way to work: his limousine sports...