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...tailed daughter Alice with her Latin homework. He made some mistakes in translation, as Alice found out in class next day, but she apparently forgave him. In 1923, when she was 18 and he was 27, they were married. The Strausses have one son, Lewis H., 35, a Baltimore physicist, and three grandchildren...
...first atomic explosion in September 1949, Strauss, proven man of scientific foresight, set off another minority campaign: the fight to get an H-bomb program started against the combined opposition of his fellow commissioners and the scientists of the AEC's General Advisory Committee, chaired by prestigious Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer...
Strauss's five years as chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission resounded with an endless rumble of controversy. The wounding wrangle that followed the suspension of Physicist Oppenheimer's security clearance made Lewis Strauss many an unforgiving enemy among the nation's scientists. Conservative Strauss angered champions of public power by insisting on confining AEC's nuclear-power role to research and design, leaving the job of building reactors for commercial power to private enterprise. He drew much of the blame for AEC's heavily attacked (and long since canceled) Dixon-Yates contract, under which...
While the hearings were going on, Strauss-hating Columnist Drew Pearson wrote that Strauss had obtained top-secret information from the AEC security file of a hostile witness, Physicist David Inglis. Questioned about the point, Strauss said 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...
Catholic University of America John H. Lawrence, physician, medical physicist, University of California, Berkeley Sc.D. Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani, Roman Catholic Pro-Secretary of the Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office LL.D...