KENNEDY FILLS 2 AEC POSTS, ENDING DISPUTE

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• Publication Date: August 6, 1962
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Kennedy HIS I
2AEC Posts,
Ending Dispute
Rome , alfrey
Will Bring Unit
To Full Strength
By GARNETT D. HORNER
Star Staff Writer
president Kennedy has filled
two troublesome vacancies of
the Atomic Energy
He announced last night his
selection of ?1Am s RH
int
executive director of the Jo
Congressional Committee_ on
Palf e can of Colum lCOl-
amp- as new AEC members.
The annow-leement, made in
Hyannis Port, marked the end
of an argument between the
Administration and some Dem-
ts in Congress that had
Cra
o
a
delayed bringing the AEC back
up to its full five-member
strength since Loren Keith Ol-
son and John S. Graham re-
signed on June 30.
. Deadlock Broken
The selection of Mr. Ramey
to fill one of the two vacancies
withh influential Democrats deadlock, AEC broke a the Joint Atomic Energy Com-
mittee, who had refused to
approve any other candidate:
of the Administration unless l
Mr. Ramey was accepted by
the Administration.
r. Kennedy presumably also
also had to find candidates
Willing to serve on the commis-
5ton=for no longer than a year.
The President plans to ask
Congress next year to replace
the present five-man commis-
sion with a single administra-
tor.
Mr. Ramey worked for the.
,Stomc, EnFTay Commission rom
sasistan't g?ncr
1941 to 1952 and s a
the manor-- AEC opera-
TVA Attorney
A native of Kentucky, Mr.
Ramey, 47, was graduated from
Amherst college in 1937 and
from Columbia University Law
School in 1941.
Until he joined the AEC,
after leaving Columbia he
worked for the Tennessee Val-
ley Authority, rising from man-
agement assistant to the posi-
tion of a senior attorney on
the TVA staff.
His wife, Estelle R. Ramey,
is an associate professor of
physiology at Georgetown Uni-
versity Medical School. The
Rameys live at 6817 Hilimead
road, Bethesda, 3 Md.
a graduate
Mr. Palfrey,
of Harvard and Harvard Law
School, joined the Columbia
University faculty in 1952. He
has been dean of Columbia l
College, the men's undergradu-
ate liberal arts college of Co-
lumbia University, since 1958.
Before Joining the Columbia
faculty, Mr. Palfrey spent two
years at the Institute of Ad-
vanced Study at Princeton
University, where his research
eentered largely around the
political and legal problems
arising from atomic energy de-
velopment. This has been one
of his chief interest in teach-
ing, writing and research at
Columbia.
He served on the staff of the
AEC general counsel from
1947 to 1950. Part of the time
i Mr. Ramey was assistant gen-
eral counsel.
Mrs. Palfrey is the former
Clochette Roosevelt, a grand-
daughter of President Theo-
dore Roosevelt.
Both Mr. Palfrey and Mr.
Ramey are Democrats.
The other three members of
the commission are Dr. Glenn
T. Seaborg, chairman; Dr. Le-
land J. Haworth and Dr. Rob-
ert E. Wilson.
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