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Defense Secretary McElroy, 54, who has long yearned to float back to Procter & Gamble (his last salary there: $285,000) to pick up the Cheerful chairmanship and rescue his bobbing stock options, re-evaluated his stand in the light of Quarles's death, said: "I will certainly be here in December." In fact, he will probably stay on the job until around February 1960, help present the defense budget to Congress...
...Anderson seems to be merely carrying on his longtime personal vendetta with Strauss. Also working against Strauss: scientists who have never forgiven him for crowbarring Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, who fought hard against the H-bomb program in 1949, out of the General Advisory Committee chairmanship...
...President's nominee for the chairmanship of the Republican National Committee. Kentucky's Senator Thruston Morton, checked with both Nelson Rockefeller and Dick Nixon before agreeing to run, but he has both publicly and privately pledged his support to Nixon...
Before he agreed to try for the chairmanship at this week's national committee meeting, Morton sounded out Rockefeller and Nixon. Nixon was enthusiastic. Rockefeller also approved, although Morton, who could swing considerable influence one way or the other in the 1960 convention, stated publicly last January: "Some people like Nelson Rockefeller. But I've been for Nixon for a long time, and nothing has happened to make me change my mind...
...defunct TV show, Two for the Money, gambled with their answers. Gross decided onstage, and without a chance to crib from reference books, whether the answers were correct, seldom had to back down. An extramural job that comes closer to the complexity of his new one: his chairmanship, since...