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...time had come to bring in a new view," says President Kennedy's HEW Secretary Abraham Ribicoff. He set out to find "a philosopher who was not afraid of new ideas, and yet had administrative ability." Ribicoff quizzed "more than 150 people in the education world," got glowing reports about Sterling McMurrin, then academic vice president at the University of Utah. "He didn't even ask what the job would pay," recalls Ribicoff...
...Administration's Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, Gov. Abraham A. Ribicoff of Connecticut, has a fine record in his state of raising teachers' salaries, pushing school construction, and strengthening faculty employment rights. From the HEW office much of the Administration's non-financial aid to education must come. In this area, the Department's responsibilities should include the commissioning of several reports--by public or private agencies--that would have the straightforwardness and influence of the Conant reports on high and junior high schools. These guidance reports, circulated to officials and the public, would make concrete recommendations hopefully calling...
...particularly the college population growing rapidly, the country's educational system requires great efforts merely to keep pace with this growth. But, as the reports of Conant and others have shown, the need is for even more than keeping pace with expanding population. With a President and an HEW Secretary who are committed to "do things" in the field of education, the Kennedy Administration may overcome traditional Congressional foot-dragging and accomplish a great deal. A great deal very clearly must be done...
Alternative plans are raining down on all sides. Presidential Aspirants Hubert Humphrey and Jack Kennedy have each put up separate bills that are very similar to Forand's but would drop the surgical benefits. HEW Secretary Flemming wants to try a compromise voluntary plan, in which individuals would pay as much as they could to private insurance companies and the states would make up the rest, with some federal help. Such a plan was originally introduced by the Republicans in both houses back in 1949. It was then co-sponsored by a young Congressman, Richard Nixon of pension-prone...
...HEW Secretary Flemming's Food and Drug Administration was getting ready for another fight of the same sort last week-this time with the $80 million-a-year lipstick industry. FDA chemists charge that 17 different coal-tar dyes used in lipsticks caused either death or illness when fed to rats. The lipstick makers insist nonetheless that women never digest more than an infinitesimal speck of lipstick, and that the FDA's attack is grossly unfair. Probable next step: a public hearing to discuss FDA's ban on the dyes, now scheduled to go into effect...