NEW ADMINISTRATION: Frontiersman (Contd.)

Named last week to the Kennedy Cabinet:

Stewart Lee Udall, 40, Secretary of the Interior. Arizona's three-term Democratic Representative Udall is a man after Jack Kennedy's own heart: an aggressive, articulate liberal with shrewd political instincts and a talent for political maneuver. A husky six-footer with dark, close-cropped hair. Lawyer Udall comes from one of Arizona's first families. His grandfather, a Mormon missionary, migrated to Arizona by covered wagon, founded the town of St. Johns (pop. 1,310), where Stew Udall was born. Udall's father was a chief justice of the Arizona Supreme Court, and three other Udalls have been state...

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