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Rubber Facts. Even Lewis Strauss's supporters agree that if he had been willing to admit to a few errors, he could have assured his confirmation. But by straining to defend every jot and tittle of his record, he got involved in intricate quibbles and rubber-fact evasions that turned several committee Democrats against him. The 9-to-8 committee vote on Strauss, after 16 days of hearings, was far from the 14-to-3 endorsement that an informal poll of committee members had indicated before Strauss appeared as a witness...
...flatly: "I have never asked for anything on Mr. Inglis in my life." Then the committee put on record a letter from the AEC showing that Strauss had asked for information on Inglis. Strauss argued that by "anything" he meant any secret information, not the few nonconfidential facts he got from AEC; But Strauss stirred up trouble for himself by telling the committee that he asked AEC for these innocuous facts "after" the Pearson column appeared. Actually, the column came out on May 5, and according to the AEC, Strauss asked for data on Inglis "about April...
...plate dinner. Present was a liberal sprinkling of aircraft executives and missile manufacturers, among whom onetime (1947-50) Air Force Secretary Symington is especially popular. But again, the meeting was dominated by the Brown-following San Diego County Democratic Committee. Indeed, it was not until he got to Los Angeles that Symington was able to do any real digging out of reach of the watchful Brown followers. There, at a cocktail party at the home of his old, close friend, Oilman Edwin Pauley. Symington moved easily among guests ranging from Frank Sinatra to Hotelman Conrad Hilton. But he also spent...
...Great . . . Isn't this fun . . . Wonderfully exciting ..." Cried he, spotting a three-year-old girl at Niagara Falls: "Hi, sweetie pie. I wish I had your freckles." Promised he, speaking at a Republican State Committee dinner in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria hotel: the same zestful formula that got him elected Governor last fall "will put New York in the Republican column in the next national elections...
Contacted yesterday by telephone, Mrs. Bunting's first comment was "I know I've got a lot to learn about Radcliffe." She said that her first-hand experience of the College has been confined to a one-day visit...