Word: strausses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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First Enemies. The contributions of Lewis Lichtenstein Strauss, 62, courtly Virginian, onetime shoe salesman, onetime investment banker (Kuhn, Loeb & Co.), onetime Navy rear admiral (ordnance, naval research, atomic energy), were as basic as President Eisenhower said they were. In 1947, as a Truman-appointed AECommissioner, Lewis Strauss (rhymes with laws) pushed through the nuclear-detection system that in September 1949 spotted the first Communist atomic blast, put the free world on guard. In October 1949, against the objection of all four of his fellow AECommissioners and all eight of Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer's General Advisory Committee, he recommended...
...first time in my life I have enemies," said Strauss, and he made plenty. He got inured, more or less, to gibes from public-power Democrats and from the pundits and scientists who resented his part in recommending the cancellation of the security clearance of Physicist Oppenheimer (TIME, April 19, 1954). But in recent months Strauss had come under attack of a sharp and intensely personal sort from New Mexico's Clinton P. Anderson, ranking Senate Democrat on the powerful and once circumspect Joint Committee on Atomic Energy...
Anderson's broadside, promptly reported around the world, was an attack on the integrity of the U.S. of a sort unequaled in the Western countries since a few French and British polemicists joined the Communists in their charge of germ warfare in Korea. But Strauss kept his reply in low key. Its net (in which the Pentagon joined): Not true. Pouted Anderson from his privileged sanctuary on the Senate floor: "He in effect four times calls me a liar...
Chosen Successor. In such "circumstances beyond the control" of either the President or Strauss, Strauss decided to step aside for the good of the program. But he did not make his decision final until he had virtually hand-picked his successor: Los Angeles Shipping Executive...
John Alex McCone, 56, onetime Under Secretary of the Air Force and longtime advocate of deterrent air power (see box). McCone was appointed to fill Strauss's seat on the commission, is expected to be named chairman after Senate approval...