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The reason why he cannot tell, but New Mexico's Democratic Senator Clinton Anderson, powerful vice chairman of Congress' Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, knows this full well: he does not like Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Lewis L. Strauss. Although the origins of the feud are obscure, the...
To the sprawling (five major agencies plus a score of hospitals, colleges, research institutes) Department of Health, Education and Welfare, teetotaling Methodist Arthur Flemming, 52, brings one of the U.S.'s longest, best records as a Government administrator and personnel expert. In 1939 President Franklin Roosevelt named New York...
During and after World War II, he took on job after job, including posts in the Office of Production Management, the Navy, War Manpower Commission, Labor Department, the Atomic Energy Commission and the Hoover Commission. In 1948 Flemming returned to his old school as the first lay president of 117...
A somewhat shaky step in the direction of an effective space program was taken by President Eisenhower a few weeks ago when he proposed that Congress establish a National Aeronautics and Space Agency to conduct research and to administer explorations. The Agency, "at the earliest possible date," would assume work...
Unless an efficient, responsible Space Agency is established within the year, and unless it is granted the $2 billion suggested by the President's Scientific Advisory Commission, this nation might just as well leave space for the Russians and anyone else who might be there already.