Word: lewises
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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MICHAEL LEWIS
"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...
First Enemies. The contributions of Lewis Lichtenstein Strauss, 62, courtly Virginian, onetime shoe salesman, onetime investment banker (Kuhn, Loeb & Co.), onetime Navy rear admiral (ordnance, naval research, atomic energy), were as basic as President Eisenhower said they were. In 1947, as a Truman-appointed AECommissioner, Lewis Strauss (rhymes with laws...
York Times, whose editorial board had long seen more in Lewis Strauss than its Washington reporters, hurled forth a weighty "WELL DONE! ... It is terrifying to think what the Soviets might have done with the hydrogen bomb if they had been the first to develop it."
Speaking for himself, Lewis Strauss left behind his own assessment of his job to guide his successor: "The atom is amoral. The only thing that makes it immoral is man. We are making bombs because we hope to discourage the use of bombs against us by a government that doesn...