Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bone-tired after five years in Washington's atom-powered hot seat, Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Lewis Strauss, 62, hopes to retire when his current term expires at month's end. In pressing steadily for a strongly armed U.S., in fighting proposals for an agreement with Russia to...
Secretary of State: Pierre Guillamat, 48, former administrative head of the French Atomic Energy Commission, and a stout nationalist who is best remembered by delegates to international conferences for his insistence that France-regardless of cost or efficiency-make her own atomic bombs.
The general ordered Lieut. Colonel George Flint, Canadian chairman of the Israeli-Jordan Mixed Armistice Commission, to go to the spot, bring about a cease-fire and arrange for the evacuation of the wounded. Colonel Flint, a tough, wiry Korean war veteran, had been badly wounded by an exploding mine...
Russia has its share of souped-up space cadets who want to blast off for Mars day after tomorrow, but official Soviet space experts have kept their heads in spite of their Sputnik successes. In Magyar Ifjusag, organ of Hungary's Communist Youth League, Leonid I. Sedov, head of...
To keep prices from spiraling too fast, a handful of the economists argued for an agency, such as a permanent Wage and Price Commission, which would gather accurate statistics, compute the effects of wage-price increases, and formulate standards for government policy. Economists such as the University of Chicago'...