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...Sent to Senate-House conference the House's badly mangled version of the McMahon atomic energy bill, which would: 1) establish military representation on the control commission and licensing board; 2) permit the death penalty for security violators; 3) authorize manufacture of atom bombs by the Army & Navy subject to Presidential approval...
Describing the development of national and international proposals for the control of atomic energy, and the need for passage of the McMahon Bill, M. Stanley Livingstone, associate professor of Nuclear Physics at M. I. T., addressed the Harvard Liberal Union last night at Phillips Brooks House...
Livingstone pointed out the need for civilian control of atomic energy to promote the peacetime use of the power and to strengthen our position in the international control councils. He added that he hoped the Liberal Union would take steps to urge the removal of crippling amendments to the McMahon bill, which calls for civilian control...
...last week the Senate showed what it could do when it had a mind to. In a little more than two hours it debated, passed by voice vote, and sent to the House the long-pending bill-authored by Connecticut's Brien McMahon-for civilian control of atomic energy...
...college senior, a Chicago toolmaker named Edwin Dzingle, the tail gunner of the B-29 that dropped the first bomb, a Texas farmer with a drawl as wide as the Panhandle, discussed the problem earnestly with Albert Einstein, Henry Wallace, Harold E. Stassen, Congressman Jerry Voorhis, Senator Brien McMahon, Harold Ickes, Archibald MacLeish, and Joseph E. Davies, onetime U.S. Ambassador to the U.S.S.R. Citizen Dzingle sounded every inch a toolmaker; Einstein plowed shyly and awkwardly through his lines. Only one of the 21-man panel was unconcerned. Said 85-year-old Samuel Gould: "I've seen every thing there...