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...Tennessee's Senator Estes Kefauver is fighting the nomination of sometime (1953-58) Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Lewis L. Strauss as Commerce Secretary, has requested a hearing during the Senate Commerce Committee's pro forma session on the nomination. Kefauver, aiming to keep the home folks happy on a hot local issue, contends that Strauss violated federal law five years ago by leading the AEC into an ill-starred private-power contract that boomeranged into the Dixon-Yates controversy. Kefauver's hopes of heading off Senate approval of Strauss are slim: not even so staunch a Strauss...
...fair trial any more--so, at least, claimed Commissioner John McCone, who said that his proposals were attacked by Congressional Democrats before they had even heard them. But if such attacks are unfair, their foundation is at least understandable: despite his resignation, the image of ex-Commissioner Lewis Strauss still looms large in Congress's picture...
Aside from the Dixon-Yates affair, the Commission made an unfortunate mark on two major fronts during Strauss's administration: it attempted to conceal the detection of a nuclear explosion so that its stand against banning tests would be stronger, and, so critics claimed, its stand on maximum "safe" radiation dosage was a reflection of AEC policy rather than the established facts. Both of these situations were a reflection of weaknesses in the commission's basic structure which desperately need correction...
...Strauss and Congress, there was hope for an era of good feeling under new AEC Chairman John A. McCone, who talked of a more vigorous program-just what the committee wanted...
Then a greying, grandmotherly woman wearing dancing slippers put a Strauss waltz on the phonograph and went to work. As always, the goal for Marian Chace, 62, the nation's leading dance therapist, was to make contact with the mentally ill, through music and movement...