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Bone-tired after five years in Washington's atom-powered hot seat, Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Lewis Strauss, 62, hopes to retire when his current term expires at month's end. In pressing steadily for a strongly armed U.S., in fighting proposals for an agreement with Russia to end nuclear tests, thin-skinned Lewis Strauss has absorbed more needles than a tailor's pincushion. Moreover, his chief needler, New Mexico's Senator Clinton Anderson (TIME, May 19) is scheduled to resume the powerful chairmanship of the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy next year, and Strauss...
...shirtsleeves and sat entranced in the same hall in which Pianist Van Cliburn triumphed. Swaddled in white ties and tails, the visitors played "Incandescently," reported New York Times Critic Howard Taubman. The first-night audience stopped applauding only so that the orchestra could play another selection: an intense Strauss Don Juan, a powerful Beethoven Seventh Symphony, a rare performance in Russia of U.S. Composer Aaron Copland's Quiet City. And they went wild after the orchestra's richly sonorous playing of Mussorgsky-Ravel's Pictures from an Exhibition...
...latest dispute between Anderson and Strauss began when Senator Anderson, appearing on the Meet the Press television program, accused the U.S. military of "inserting something" in atomic bombs to increase, rather than reduce, atomic fallout (TIME, May 12). Last week Lewis Strauss replied to Anderson's charge in a calm, factual letter to Joint Committee on Atomic Energy Chairman Carl Durham of North Carolina. "Atomic bombs," said Strauss, "are only taken from stockpiles for purposes of routine inspection or for modification or improvement. No material is 'inserted' in bombs for the purpose of increasing the amount...
...Lewis Strauss had not even come close to accusing Anderson of deliberate falsehood, but on television's Face the Nation he did point out that although most of the current agitation for stopping nuclear tests was "completely innocent of any political motive," there was also evidence of "a kernel of very intelligent, deliberate propaganda." Clint Anderson blew up. Cried he of Strauss: "He seeks to become the modern apostle of McCarthyism...
...Anderson vendetta against Strauss could have far-reaching national consequences: if the Democrats control the Congress next year. Anderson will probably be chairman of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy and thus the man on Capitol Hill with whom Strauss must work most closely. Last week, summing up the possible results. New York Times Columnist Arthur Krock, an old friend to both Anderson and Strauss, described Strauss as Clint Anderson's Doctor Fell, concluded: "If Strauss retires voluntarily at the end of his current term, June 30, one of the principal reasons might well be his patriotic recognition that...