NEW ADMINISTRATION: Frontiersman (Contd.)

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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 judges. Udall went to the University of Arizona, where he played on the basketball team, graduated from law school. During World War II he served as a 6-24 gunner in Italy. Elected to the House of Representatives in 1954. Udall won Jack Kennedy's special regard last year by fighting hard and effectively for labor-reform legislation along Kennedy lines. An early Kennedy-for-President man, Udall helped Kennedy win Arizona's 17 Democratic Convention votes, which Texas Lyndon Johnson counted safely for his own. In a bitter fight for re-election this year, Udall survived a Republican whispering campaign to the effect that he was a "Jack Mormon" (i.e., one who does not take the church's social inhibitions literally), won handily. As Secretary of the Interior, Udall, who represented a congressional district which has more Indians (100,000) and this year got more federal aid than any other, can be expected to pump hard for public power, conservation and Indians. One of his key assignments in the new Administration: to serve as a Cabinet-level liaison man with Congress.