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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After the war, Democrat Harry Truman named Republican Strauss to the brand-new Atomic Energy Commission under Chairman David Lilienthal. Strauss soon started finding himself on the minority end of 4-to-1 AEC decisions. Unable to persuade his fellow AEC commissioners to set up a system to detect Soviet atomic tests, he sidestepped them by taking his case to friends at the Pentagon. When the detection system, set up at Strauss's urging, picked up radiation from the Soviet Union's first atomic explosion in September 1949, Strauss, proven man of scientific foresight, set off another minority...
...year as Governor, is beginning to get serious notions about the 'White House. He is therefore extremely careful never to let the state's aspiring visitors get far out of his sight. As with Kennedy and Humphrey. Stu Symington's speaking dates and travel schedules were set up by the Brown-dominated Democratic State Central Committee...
...Ministry of Housing at last decided that Barbican should be turned into an oasis of apartment buildings, shops, schools and "open spaces." A year later the City Corporation set up a 16-man Barbican committee headed by a forward-looking city councilor named Eric Wilkins, 57. A team of young architects was hired to draw up a master plan for a combined residential, business and cultural center, largely for middle-class people who work in the City. Last week Londoners were trooping into Guildhall to view $56 million worth of possible things to come...
Barbican's architectural imagination captured public and professional critics alike. But Barbican's chairman, wise in the ways of bureaucracy, said: "Progress depends on whether there is a red light or a green light. What is important is that the lights should not be set forever at amber...
Flying Bouquets. When Baudouin's plane touched down at Brussels' Melsbroek airport, he descended smiling to embrace his father, kiss his grandmother, shake hands with his handsome younger (25) brother Prince Albert, whose proposed marriage to Princess Paola Ruffo di Calabria at the Vatican had set off an anticlerical uproar in Belgium (TIME, June 8). Normally. Baudouin would have gone directly from the airport to his Laeken palace, bypassing busy Brussels, with its snarled, honking traffic. Instead, riding in an open limousine, the King made a 15-mile tour of his capital city, where hundreds of police...