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Roger Warren Jones, 52, Deputy Under Secretary of State for Administration. Conscientious, Connecticut-born Roger Jones took a temporary civil service job in Washington in Depression-dreary 1933 to help pay for a Ph.D. in English literature that would launch him on a teaching career. He has yet to find time for that doctorate. A talent for staffwork hoisted him up through civil service ranks to its top-level GS-18 rating before he stepped out of ranks in 1958 to become assistant director of the Budget Bureau. Two years ago Dwight Eisenhower named him chairman of the Civil Service...
...legend has grown up around his empire building. Born May 18, 1878 in Shelbyville, Tenn., Jenkins showed up in Aguascalientes, Mexico in 1901, dead broke. He took a job as a railway mechanic for 50? a day. In 1906, a U.S. missionary group staked him to enough capital to launch an itinerant haberdashery business...
...uranium industry was only a fledgling operation in 1949 when the U.S. Public Health Service, aware that lung cancer was striking down European uranium miners, decided to launch a quiet, long-term study of workers in the ore-rich Colorado Plateau mines. Last week the PHS's Dr. Harold J. Magnuson, results in hand, dashed to Denver for an emergency meeting with four Western Governors. The news he carried was alarming: the death rate from lung cancer among uranium miners is five times as great as that of U.S. men in general...
Nurses in the Forest. Each submarine will remain submerged for 60 days at a time (George Washington will spend Christmas and New Year's at sea), and effectiveness will depend on precise maintenance. In order to launch missiles on target with accuracy, the ship must know its exact location. The complicated celestial-periscope system has 80,000 components and must be kept working to perfection. The periscope runs a constant double check on the Cadillac-sized SINS (ship's inertial navigation system), which tracks the sub's underwater course with pinpoint accuracy. The missiles are housed gently...
Most dramatic change of fiscal heart last week was in West Germany. On the eve of the Anderson-Dillon visit, Chancellor Konrad Adenauer abruptly cut his country's cackle about being short of spare cash: his Cabinet hastily announced "complete agreement" to launch West Germany's first real foreign-aid program in 1961. Under the projected billion-dollar program, Germany will at last make available to the capital-hungry underdeveloped nations a significant hunk of the record $7.4 billion gold and hard-currency reserves accumulated during the spectacular German economic comeback...