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What was supposed to be a confirmation hearing on the qualifications of Lewis Strauss, former chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, to be Secretary of Commerce turned out last week to be an undisguised inquisition. To begin with, the Senate Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee took an unusual step in bringing in a special counsel for the hearing. Committee and counsel called only hostile witnesses, gave Strauss no notice of who would be appearing against him. With witnesses day after day pouring personal rancor into the headlines, the weird sessions added up to one of the bitterest attacks...
...TIME, May 4 et seq.). Fortnight ago Ike pointed out that 47 major appointments were still awaiting Senate confirmation. But Strauss is also a victim of a personal vendetta waged against him by New Mexico's Democratic Senator Clinton P. Anderson, Agriculture Secretary under Harry Truman and now chairman of Capitol Hill's Joint Atomic Energy Committee...
...With the results of the poll, we feel a compulsion to press for an extension on Friday evenings," Albert L. Jacobs, Jr. '61, chairman of the Council Committee on Parietal Hours, stated yesterday. He indicated that the polls would be forwarded to the House Masters "as an indictor of student feeling on the matter...
According to Eugene H. Zagat, Jr. '61, chairman of the committee, studies of systems at other college libraries have shown that many plans are more flexible than Lamont's. Zagat envisions a system which would allow undergraduates to take reserve books out of the library for specified three-hour periods during the day. Books would then circulate for overnight...
...Penrose Hallowell '32, temporary chairman of the Advisory Committee, announced plans for improving liaison with outlying areas, for instituting subscription and discount setups, and for achieving a minimum goal of 5,000 memberships by October...