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Dates: during 1950-1959
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OF all the world's statesmen none is more famed for steely determination than Konrad Adenauer, the autocratic octogenarian who has ruled West Germany for the past ten years. When Adenauer two months ago decided to turn the West German chancellorship over to a younger man, his countrymen assumed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jun. 15, 1959 | 6/15/1959 | See Source »

A vital key to Lewis Strauss's character is a perfectionism that still seems to nag him at an age when he might have become more mellowed. It shows in the studied elegance of his tailoring, in a precision of speech that comes natural to him from long habit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: The Strauss Affair | 6/15/1959 | See Source »

The St. Joan Manner. But if Lewis Strauss's reputation is unfair to him, it is in some degree his own fault. He has a remarkable talent for giving offense. Said the New Republic last week in an editorial on Strauss: "One is reminded of Shaw's comment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: The Strauss Affair | 6/15/1959 | See Source »

Yet almost from Strauss's first days as head of the Atomic Energy Commission, Anderson complained that Strauss deliberately withheld information from the Joint Congressional Committee, thereby evading his responsibility under the Atomic Energy Act to keep the committee "fully and currently informed" about AEC matters. Anderson was openly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: The Strauss Affair | 6/15/1959 | See Source »

"My wife and I decided in 1916 to get married. Since I, like all other second lieutenants, was always overdrawn at the bank, I decided that I ought to show a little more sense of responsibility. So I began to buy a small insurance policy. Well, I gave up smoking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Working for Our Future | 6/15/1959 | See Source »

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