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Until recently, Southern Congressmen who denounced the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare's stringent new guidelines for school desegregation received a sympathetic hearing only from other Southerners. But Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield has now joined in the criticism of HEW, apparently in the belief that continued prodding for integration anywhere will succor a white backlash everywhere. The result of Mansfield's statement that the department is pushing integration "too fast" can only be to slow down the pace of school desegregation in the South, -- a pace that is and has always been unconscionably slow...
...Senate went beyond mere criticism; it took a number of steps that may actually roll back Negro gains. For one thing, it attached a rider to a HEW appropriations bill giving Southern hospitals the right-or alibi-to segregate patients if they judge that integrated rooms might prove "injurious" to their health. For another, it approved a $ 1,000,000 cut in HEW's civil rights enforcement budget. In addition, the Senate-approved Demonstration Cities bill was running into resistance from Congressmen who said they were getting complaints from constituents that "we don't need a Demonstration Cities...
...HEW Secretary John Gardner took the setbacks with equanimity, described them as "an outburst of resentment, but not a decisive one." Other Administration officials were more disturbed. Said Office of Education Official David Seeley: "This may be the turning point similar to that after the Civil War, when the nation turned its back on the Negro...
...appeared, Gross was summoned back to the White House. His ideas were incorporated into a speech President Johnson gave in March. L.B.J. instructed the Department of Health, Education and Welfare to develop a study of "social indicators" along the lines Gross had suggested. And Gross was hired as a HEW consultant...
...every year with Husband George, can be counted on to spur on her little darlings. "I guess we've never had a real vacation," she says. "Everywhere we go there is tennis, a tournament or something." On the tour, Nancy and Cliff spend all their spare time together, hew to strict training rules: up at 9 a.m., in bed by 11 p.m. Nancy has not had a date in eight months, and Cliff has abstained since January-but neither seems to miss the social swirl. "People tell us that tennis isn't everything," explains Cliff...