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When Lieut. General Elwood Ricardo Quesada retired from the Air Force in 1951, he had behind him 25 years of service and the experience of commanding the AEC's first thermonuclear tests at Eniwetok (TIME, April 2, 1951). Last week "Pete" Quesada, now 50 and a Lockheed Aircraft Corp. vice president, got a chance to put both his military and scientific knowledge to good use. In Burbank, Calif., Lockheed announced that it was spending $10 million to set up a new scientific laboratory for advanced research by its missiles division. As the lab's boss, Airman Quesada will...
...little name check to see whether a picture applicant has generally gone along with his program. Ike explained that he did not demand 100% conformity. (He told the conference later that he was still behind Kentucky's Senator John Sherman Cooper despite Cooper's votes against the AEC bill.) But he did believe that the principles on which he was trying to conduct the business of his office must be observed by a Republican Congressman; otherwise, the President should not try to help...
...real test came on Gore's amendment to prohibit the Government from paying income taxes for private firms under contract to AEC. Again, Knowland, keeping on the pressure, disregarded the script and asked that debate be limited. Gore said he would not operate under such restrictions, and if Knowland insisted on being "bullheaded, then-well . . ." Knowland backtracked, Gore talked only 20 minutes and the amendment carried by a voice vote. Johnson's diplomacy was working...
...session in years, and Joe Martin's slim Republican majority, assisted by a band of conservative Democrats, had beaten back the advocates of public power. By a vote of 172 to 115, the House threw out a rider aimed at canceling President Eisenhower's order for the AEC to buy electricity from private power companies. Then it approved, 161 to 118, a provision that was the precise opposite of language tacked onto the bill in the Senate: where the Senate wanted the Atomic Energy Commission to get into the commercial electricity business, the House would keep the AEC...
Having picked over the AEC bill's 104 pages in one long day, the House was ready to vote the bill's final passage. But the hour being late, it recessed for a weekend's rest before the roll was called...