Show IS)HlrlrlMl(Ell(s If Intis: - S ni— WITH WITHOUT ORTHO-eR- O ORTHO-GR-O 2 teaspoons of ORTHO-GRper gallon of water each week for 3 weeks— that’s all it took! Plant on right was watered only O Flemming holds press conferences regularly and answers questions with a se directness Crusader in a Hot Spot (Continued) t t - ' 1 teaspoon of fertile by candling on the 18th day There are legitimate uses for rotten eggs as in leather tanning but in recent years sharp-ste- rs have made a racket of buying them' removing the shells adding chemicals to kill the odor and freezing the mixture for sale in cans to bakeries and restaurants Probably three million dozen rotten eggs were fed to the unsuspecting public last year HEW’s Food and Drug Administration set US marshals on the trail and smashed the racket The Flemming way of thinking requires that the taxpayer must be kept informed He holds a press conference every two weeks answering questions and introducing the men who make the news in his offices ORTHO-GR- per gallon of water for O 6 weeks— that’s all it took! Plant on right was watered only egg-legge- rs’ Fertilize with ORTHO-GR- O! ' N all over your garden improved growth richer colors bigger and more abundant blooms ORTHO-GR- O Liquid Plant Food supplies essential nutrients — nitrogen phosphorus potash — in liquid form immediately useable to plants A chelating agent even releases important elements such as iron from the soil for plant absorption ORTHO-GR- O is easy to apply with sprinkling can or ORTHO Lawn Sprayer attached to your garden hose Economical too— 1 quart makes as much as 96 gallons of diluted fertilizer See changes like this TH’ REG US RAT OFF: ORTHO-GR- have called Flemming puritanical not use tobacco liquor coffee or tea His suits are always dark his shirts always white He says he is too busy for bridge fishing or golf He makes so many trips that Mrs Flemming keeps a suitcase packed and awaiting his call Last autumn they took a week’s vacation in Atlantic City During it he dashed up to New York to make a speech rushed down to Washington to attend a cabinet meeting and issued statements to the press on cranberries and chickens Back on the job he was called a headline hunter He doesn’t even look the part Lean and over six feet tall he’s like the boy down the block whose face is all ears and nose " He has learned fb cover much of his ul shyness His voice is quite soft in the office —very often he forgets himself and sayrs “sir” to a departmental underling — but on a speaker’s platform it resounds like Critics ORTHO once-painf- i A "C I ij tl t&lllmni Cfu-nic- Ca RkhmorJ CaVJ 'CzJJ'zUn DC MUnla Ci I 16 Family Weekly May 221960 great breakers on a beach He is an family man Of his four children three are at home old-fashio- ned a girl and two boys In a town famous for broken dinner dates and unhappy helpmates he usually manages to get home for the family meal “If he’s late we wait for him” Mrs Flemming says Each workday he kisses her good-by- e dons his pinched-pea- k gray-fe- lt hat and steps into his car The pressure begins the minute he enters his office But he seems to thrive on it Says Mrs Flemming: “I think all his life was a preparation for this sort of thing He has the amazing power to detach himself from a crisis and look at it from the outside After he’s made a decision despite slings and arrows he’s at peace with himself” A reporter once asked -- ‘Do you ever feel — the pressures yourself?” She replied “I’d have to be dead and buried not to feel them” Flemming has neither a personal fortune n°r a political following unusual among Eisenhower appointees What he does have is ability to govern much while seeming to govern little to get along with Congress and to make his decisions stick Close observers say he may be the first of a new breed of Washington officials who though they could make more money in industry remain in Government because of their concern for their fellow citizens “My primary concern” Flemming himself says “is to face up to the human needs which confront each of us and to do something about those needs” And that’s the point about Flemming—-h- e s not afraid to do what has to be done |