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...extend schooling two more years at the other end. Last month the Educational Policies Commission of the National Education Association proposed that "all children should have the opportunity to go to school at public expense beginning at the age of four." President Johnson promptly endorsed the idea, as did HEW Secretary John Gardner. With the Federal Government that committed, says one Washington educator, "the question is not whether -but when-it will come...
...DOCTORS' FEES. One of the prickliest problems involves the system of paying doctors, already angered by the specter of bureaucrats interfering in their practices. Dr. Philip Randolph Lee, Assistant HEW Secretary for Health and Scientific Affairs, said last week: "We have heard from some sources that physicians have raised their fees in anticipation of Medicare." A guidebook went out last week to some 230,000 physicians reminding them that the Government will pay "reasonable" fees-meaning an amount close to what the doctor usually charges non-Medicare patients in his area...
That committee's only notable cut in the Labor-HEW measure last week was the unkindest: it eliminated $31 million sought by the President for his cherished proposal to create a national Teachers Corps to work in high-poverty areas. The move reflected a widespread sentiment in Congress that economies, if any, should trim the new Great Society ventures rather than successful existing programs. Even the President's major congressional victory of the week, the Senate's grudging passage of a minuscule $12 million appropriation to launch a Great Society rent-subsidy program, was achieved only with...
...House Armed Services subcommittee's report last week accused Mc-Namara of "significantly misrepresenting" the case for the FB-111 in his own testimony, of applying "institutional constraints" on other Pentagon witnesses so they would hew to the Mc-Namara line, and of generally scorning Capitol Hill advice to such a point that the Congress has been forced into "a passive role of supine acquiesence" to U.S. defense policies...
Almost every college administrator is aware of what HEW Secretary John Gardner has termed "the flight from teaching." A massive drive is under way to "rediscover students" and "bring back teaching"?academe's typically bland admission that many colleges have lost sight of all those young bodies bulging their buildings...