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Charles J. Hitch, 51, Assistant Secretary of Defense (comptroller). Bow-tied Scholar Hitch has been chief of economics research at California's highbrow Rand Corp. since 1948, two months ago was named director of the corporation's overall research program. He has published three brain-cracking books (the latest: last year's The Economics of Defense in the Nuclear Age). At Rand, Hitch has been in charge of thinking out the economic implications of cold war military problems and weapons systems-an assignment so close to his new job as Defense's financial watchdog that...
...statistical analysis of consumer purchasing. A believer in federal spending, he stands in economic thinking just a slight twist to the right of Council Chairman Walter Heller. Rhodes Scholar Gordon-the fourth Rhodes scholar for the New Frontier team, after Dean Rusk, Treasury Under Secretary Robert Roosa, Charles Hitch-also did graduate work at Harvard, took leave from his professorship at Williams College last January to be director of economic development and administration for the Ford Foundation. Another academic liberal, Democrat Gordon has specialized in international economics...
From a short hitch as assistant powder monkey in a Colorado gold mine. Keys came home with a new straw hat and $75 -and finally stayed long enough to finish high school. A budding chemist in his freshman year at the University of California at Berkeley, he loaded up with brain-crushing courses (chemistry, physics, calculus, German, Chinese, English), worked 30 hours a week in the university library, took his classmates for "$20 or $30 a month" playing bridge, and kept a big bag of dried apricots beside his dormitory bed. That spring, embittered by his failure to capture...
Gell-Mann compares the work of physics to cleaning out a cluttered basement. "Once the debris has been swept away," he says, "the basement's outline can be seen." This always happens in physics, but there is one hitch: "Somebody has discovered over in a corner a trap door, leading to a subbasement. First we had to learn about atoms, but when we got atoms cleared up, we found a trap door to the next subbasement, the atomic nucleus, which was then completely unknown. Now that this is being swept out a bit, the next trap door leads us into...
...Polish-Russian immigrants who settled in The Bronx, Rivers started out to be a jazz musician. He spent his summers playing the saxophone on the Catskill circuit, even did a hitch at the Juilliard School of Music. His idols were Charlie Parker and Lester Young. But one day Rivers met a girl who had high hopes of becoming a painter. "Enter women," says he of that romance. "That's how it all began...