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McCone of the AEC
Marine, Gene | April 11, 1959 issue

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The article discusses top appointments in America. Critics of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission's (AEC) long-time chairman, Admiral Lewis Strauss, rejoiced publicly when he resigned in 1958. They should have known better. The volatile Strauss, who took personal criticism so seriously that for months, he would not speak to another AEC member until he had handpicked his successor. John McCone, the new chairman is a smoother operator, but otherwise represents little change. McCone's attitude towards AEC information policy made its first appearance when Los Angeles, California, was visited, in last fall of 1958, with an unusually high radiation level after a Nevada test.

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GOVERNMENT executives -- United States; PUBLIC officers; MCCONE, John; U.S. Atomic Energy Commission; LEADERSHIP; NEVADA; UNITED States
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