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Died. Carl Milles, 80, Swedish-born modern master of park and fountain sculpture; in Lidingö, Sweden. Milles studied in Paris for seven years, was assistant to Auguste Rodin, moved on to hew lithe, dreamlike figures often drawn from Norse, Greek and American Indian mythologies (TIME, June 27). In 1929 he came to the U.S. to teach at Cranbrook Academy, Bloomfield Hills, Mich., became a U.S. citizen in 1945. Among his best-known works: Stockholm's Orpheus Fountain; St. Louis' The Meeting of the Waters, 19 life-sized figures symbolizing the meeting of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers...
...especially to the educational third of HEW, which will be his particular baby-Hunt will bring a topnotch administrative ability and a knack for inspiring the people who work for him. In the field of education on a national level, Hunt leaves the specifics to others, thinks in terms of broad policy, good public relations and orderly progress. "It's not enough," he once said, "that each of us recognizes and accepts his personal accountability for teaching. It is essential that we have a clearly stated and accepted philosophy of education that expresses our values and that guides...
...What is the next highest priority group? The matter was too inflamed even for the emollient Rockefeller touch, and HEW passed it. Best guess: children one to four years old will win. But this might be a poor choice: the mass trials in 1954 indicated that the vaccine is far more effective for children over...
...conference on allocation of vaccine and enforcement of any controls that might be ordered. Represented were her own department, the National Foundation, state and county health officers and medical societies, and the six firms licensed to manufacture the vaccine. Conference chairman was Dr. Chester Keefer, top medical aide in HEW. Assorted politicians, some labor unions and newspapers were clamoring for rigid federal centre's. But the conferees had been warned in advance that the Administration would not accept any such proposal...
...F.D.R. not only confused his enemies; he made them look politically inept in the eyes of the world. Their hope was that they could hew him down to their own pigmy size, but he died while still towering over them, loved by millions, and respected by multitudes...