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...reason why he cannot tell, but New Mexico's Democratic Senator Clinton Anderson, powerful vice chairman of Congress' Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, knows this full well: he does not like Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Lewis L. Strauss. Although the origins of the feud are obscure, the fact of Anderson's violent dislike for Strauss has been known for years-and by last week it had Clint Anderson, ordinarily a reasonable man, roaring ahead with a continuing attack on Lewis Strauss...
...Democratic Senator Clinton Anderson, prestigious vice chairman of Congress' Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, accused the Administration on Meet the Press of talking about clean bombs while stockpiling dirty bombs-even "inserted something that makes them dirtier." The Defense Department denied it. Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Lewis Strauss resented it. President Eisenhower said at his news conference: "We have looked constantly to cleaner bombs so that you could have a more local and advantageous use of the nuclear weapon rather than just a shotgun method...
...Strauss' Die Fledermaus has been selected as the major fall production of the Harvard Opera Guild, production manager William A. Storrer '59 disclosed last night. The Guild will also institute a series of opera "workshops" to provide experience for College students in the techniques of opera presentation and to make rarely-performed roles available for students...
...Brentano, at posh La Redoute, Mikoyan at first sipped listlessly at his champagne, having previously confessed that he was not much of a drinker ("Whisky I don't take at all because of the smell. I drank it once in America"). Then as ebullient Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss charged into the room, Mikoyan's sour mien brightened. He opened the conversation bluntly. "You are a nice man, but we don't particularly like your speeches. Why are you arming with nuclear weapons?" The florid Bavarian stood his ground. "We are a dwarf," he replied equably...
...want to be a giant; we want to be friends." countered Mikoyan. As the portentous raillery went on, a crowd gathered. Addressing himself to Finance Minister Franz Etzel and pointing to Strauss, Mikoyan said: "You must give no more money to this man." Replied Etzel: "Fine, you set East Germany free, and I will cut him off the budget...