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There are many reasons for being on the cover of TIME, but, in essence, they all come down to one word -NEWS. Last week's cover on Commerce Secretary Lewis Strauss came in the midst of the noisily newsy controversy over his confirmation. The story was eagerly awaited in Washington - partly for the effect it could have on the Senate vote. That vote has not yet been taken, but the story's principals - Secretary Strauss and New Mexico's Senator Clinton Anderson - agree, from their widely differing points of view, the story was fair, and squared with...
Rubber Facts. Even Lewis Strauss's supporters agree that if he had been willing to admit to a few errors, he could have assured his confirmation. But by straining to defend every jot and tittle of his record, he got involved in intricate quibbles and rubber-fact evasions that turned several committee Democrats against him. The 9-to-8 committee vote on Strauss, after 16 days of hearings, was far from the 14-to-3 endorsement that an informal poll of committee members had indicated before Strauss appeared as a witness...
From the 1,128-page record of the hearings, Democrats extracted the main ammunition for attacking Strauss on the Senate floor. Gist of the Democratic charge: Strauss's testimony is sprinkled with half truths and even lies. But the ammunition is small-bore stuff, proving only that under rough and hostile questioning, Strauss can be evasive, quibblesome and not above beclouding a point with big handfuls of debater's dust. Example, one that Gale McGee considers especially damaging to Strauss...
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...
...implacable enemy," says embattled Lewis Strauss, "is a good Senator." The Senator's career...