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In 1968 the Public Health Service was reorganized into three separate health agencies: the Health Services and Mental Health Administration, the National Institutes of Health, and the Consumer protection public and Environmental Health -Service, including the Food and Drug Administration, one of the agencies originally transferred into the Federal Security Agency in 1939. These three health agencies are directed by the assistant secretary for health and scientific affairs, who is aided by the surgeon general of the Public Health Service.

A public personage or an actual participant in a public event or some newsworthy incident affecting that person has only a limited right of privacy. Thus, persons who are either public figures or who are involved in newsworthy events are usually photographed without permission or model releases. However, definitions of public figures, public places, and newsworthy event are constantly subject to interpretation. There is at least one photographer who was sued by a public figure who got very tired of

5RANGER CASES, six decisions by the U. S. Suireme Court in 1877 that upheld the power of tates to regulate the rates charged by public itilities. The cases, of which the most noted i'as Munn v. Illinois, questioned the constitu-ionality of regulatory laws enacted by Midwest-jn legislatures under the influence of the Grange q.v.), an association of farmers. The Granger laws had resulted from com-ilaints against excessive and arbitrary rates harged to farmers by railroads and warehouses. The laws were challenged on the ground that they deprived the railroads and warehousemen of their property without due process of law. The Supreme Court, however, in a decision written by Chief Justice Morrison R. Waite, ruled that "When one devotes his property to a use in which the public has an interest, he . . . must submit to be controlled by the public for the common good." The court also said that "For protection public against abuses by Legislatures, the people must resort to the polls, not to the Courts."