Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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"Dear Mr. President," wrote Atomic Energy" Commission Chairman Lewis Strauss. "It is hard for me to write this letter [but] circumstances beyond the control of either of us make a change in the chairmanship of the commission advisable." Thus, after five effective and harassed years, Strauss last week announced his...
John Alex McCone, 56, onetime Under Secretary of the Air Force and longtime advocate of deterrent air power (see box). McCone was appointed to fill Strauss's seat on the commission, is expected to be named chairman after Senate approval.
A Private Dynamo in the Public Service Named by President Eisenhower to a chair on the Atomic Energy Commission: California Industrialist John Alex McCone.
The Full Life. Handsome, well-knit (5 ft. 10 in., 165 Ibs.), professorial-looking in his rimless glasses, McCone quietly but energetically pursued a career of public service while advancing his private fortunes, became a director of the Stanford Research Institute, a trustee of Caltech, a regent of Loyola University...
Yellow for Caution. Yellow caution lights flared all over the track. The drivers who had escaped the crash held their positions while the track was cleared. But eight cars were out of commission. When the caution lights blinked off, the front runner was a handsome, husky, 31-year-old Arizona...