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Last week Senator Anderson, who is not even a member of the commerce committee, appeared himself as a witness for two days, read a 42-page attack accusing Strauss of 1) withholding information from the congressional Joint Atomic Energy Committee when he was AEC chairman, 2) hindering U.S. nuclear-power progress, 3) practicing "deception" in the old (1954-55) row over the long-since-canceled Dixon-Yates private-power contract with AEC, and 4) creating "myths" about his achievements. When Anderson accused Strauss of "unqualified falsehoods," New Hampshire's Republican Senator Norris Cotton broke in: "That is a polite...
...bitter against Strauss for his part in getting the security clearance of Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer lifted in 1954, in a sequel to the fierce battle in which Strauss urged-and Oppenheimer opposed-a program to develop an H-bomb. Argonne National Laboratory Physicist David R. Inglis, newly elected chairman of the politicking Federation of American Scientists, charged that Strauss, out of "personal vindictiveness," had dragged scientific freedom "into the dirt" in the Oppenheimer case. But Inglis threw considerable light on his own judgment when he remarked that Alger Hiss's "sterling character" outweighed the spy charges against...
...week's end Washington Democrat Warren Magnuson, commerce committee chairman, announced that he hoped his committee would take action on the confirmation of Lewis Strauss this week. At that point, 111 days had passed since President Eisenhower had sent Strauss's nomination to the Senate-two days more than the total time it had taken the Senate to confirm all 13 of Lewis Strauss's predecessors as Secretary of Commerce...
...Choice. McElroy at first said that his deputy's death would have no effect on his own departure, qualified the statement to indicate that he might stay on. Washington, meanwhile, buzzed about successors for either job. Mentioned: U.N. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, Defense Department Comptroller Wilfred McNeil, AEC Chairman John McCone, Dwight Eisenhower's SHAPE Chief of Staff, General Alfred M. Gruenther, president of the American Red Cross...
...Since 1956, the Metropolitan News Co. of New York, one of 37 concerns that distribute New York papers, has paid out sums totaling $107,768 for "miscellaneous travel expenses." Asked by Chairman McClellan if these mysterious disbursements were payoffs to "some union officials," Metropolitan's Secretary Harold Weinstock took the Fifth Amendment...