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Polls show that a wide majority of the public, including Catholics, now favor public assistance for birth-control programs. Prodded by President Johnson and his aggressive Department of Health, Education and Welfare, the Government has neatly reversed its previous hands-off attitude; in the last year alone, HEW has doubled its staff engaged in population work. The Office of Economic Opportunity, though still lagging behind HEW, also liberalized its birth-control guidelines recently; more than 30 state governments (v. 13 in 1964) are now actively engaged in giving birth-control...
Three-Pronged Effort. COPE's first major commitment was made this month in California. Of 113 candidates whom it endorsed for state and nation al office, all but seven were Democrats. Nationwide, labor is expected to hew pretty close to its line in the last election: of 276 COPE-backed candidates elected to Congress, only 17 were Republicans. Labor's political experts are paying particular attention to the reelection of 51 Democratic freshmen, most of them from swing districts that were won in the L.B.J. landslide. To preserve some aura of bipartisanship, COPE is expected to bestow...
With Congress in recess, among the few items of business to cross the President's desk were the resignations of Federal Communications Commission Chairman E. William Henry and Assistant HEW Secretary Francis Keppel. Memphis Lawyer Henry, who as FCC chief since 1963 has stung A. T. & T. with a still-in-progress study of its rate setup but soft-pedaled his predecessors' criticism of the TV industry, is anxious to return to private practice. In three years at HEW, Keppel made its Office of Education the nation's most innovative force in public education (TIME cover...
...Department of Health, Education, and Welfare told manufacturers that, effective with 1968 models, all cars sold in the U.S. must be equipped with devices that will curb exhaust fumes, which pollute the air in almost every major U.S. city and are potentially a major killer. HEW hopes that its new regulations, which will cut out about half of the carbon monoxide and hydrocarbon pollutants, will clear the air somewhat by the end of the decade, as new cars replace older smoky models...
...South Viet Nam's long-term future, in Humphrey's view, recent inspection tours by HEW's John Gardner and Agriculture's Orville Freeman-"with 14 of the outstanding agriculturalists of America"-promise even more potential benefit than any victory of arms. He chafes because congressional committees have a "thousand questions" for military commanders but have yet to call in Freeman or Gardner. In all fairness, reasons Humphrey, Congress should accord equal time to the field marshals of the other war. "Let's learn something," he says...