Word: aec
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Harassed and sometimes angry, Lilienthal admitted some mistakes. He had already promised a change in AEC's handling of federal scholarships (TIME, May 30). As the inquisition went on, he also admitted that the Argonne Laboratory's delay in reporting the loss of a quantity of uranium 235 was "a substantial error ... I don't object to the chairman of the commission being given hell...
...AEC chairman graduated from DePauw University in 1920, where he received an honorary Doctorate of Laws in 1945, and practiced law in Tennessee, Chicago, and Wisconsin before being appointed a director of the Tennessee Valley Authority...
Although he definitely plans to come to the exercises, there is a possibility that the current Joint Committee hearings on his management of AEC may prevent him from making the trip from Washington...
Glaring at a list of 500 AEC scholarship-holders, Michigan's Homer Ferguson demanded to be told how many Communists there were among them. "Perhaps as many as three," Lilienthal admitted. One of these, explained Dr. Shields Warren, AEC's director of biology and medicine, was "an outstanding student" named Isador Edelman. Edelman, 29, had applied for a fellowship at the University of California's Berkeley laboratory (where he would have been close to secret work), had been turned down because an FBI check disclosed "derogatory information." But because he "showed extraordinary promise," AEC granted...
Clear Provision. By week's end, be-leagured David Lilienthal had a public change of heart. Hereafter, he declared, the AEC would demand an anti-Communist affidavit from all applicants. The private National Research Council (which had been picking the fellows for AEC) agreed to this procedure. Said Lilienthal, completing his change of front: "I have no question at all that we should not provide public funds for anyone who advocates the overthrow of this government by force or violence . . . whether [the work] is secret or non-secret." Just to make doubly sure, O'Mahoney announced he would...