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...State John Foster Dulles fell into the hole, conceded that the U.S.S.R. had won "a certain propaganda victory." But, said Dulles, the President had been forewarned about the Kremlin's move, had consulted with senior officials (Dulles, Deputy Defense Secretary Donald Quarles, Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Lewis Strauss) on whether "to try to steal a march on the Soviet" by announcing a suspension of U.S. nuclear tests. He had decided that this summer's tests of "clean." i.e., low-fallout, nuclear weapons at Eniwetok Atoll were essential to U.S. security. Said Dulles: "We decided that we could...
...Then, after sparring playfully with Norstad for photographers (see cut), spry old Teddy Green scurried off to one of the social engagements that he apparently considers the main job of the Foreign Relations Committee chairman. In this case, it was lunch with visiting West German Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss...
...interest of order in a constitutional state." As the U.S. Army almost casually announced that it already had guided antiaircraft missiles all over the country-in addition to scores of 600-mile Matadors that can be armed with either conventional or atomic warheads-Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss went ahead with his plans to buy 24 U.S. Matador missiles for his own army...
Since the AEC's Chairman Lewis Strauss firmly opposes any test-suspension agreement on the ground that the Russians would cheat, and influential Nuclear Physicist Edward Teller supports Strauss by insisting that they technically could cheat, the 2,050-mile mistake caused a flurry of accusations that the AEC had been doing some cheating itself. Hubert Humphrey all but accused Strauss & Co. of deliberately twisting truth. Asked the Strauss-baiting Washington Post and Times Herald: "Has the AEC been bending the scientific facts to suit a preconceived position...
This, to hear Conductor Leonard Bernstein tell it, is what might be happening at a climactic moment during Richard Strauss's Don Quixote. Bernstein bawled this analysis from the podium at one of his current New York Philharmonic Young People's Concerts. His point: music does not need verbal meanings assigned to it, and Don Quixote could as well be about Superman as about the "silly old man" on a "skinny, bony old horse...