Congress & Beyond

In his 23 years in the House of Representatives, New York's Republican Representative W. Sterling ("Stub") Cole, 53, did his best work on committee assignment--postwar military policy, naval affairs, armed services. In 1947 he was appointed to the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy, served as chairman during the crucial years 1953-54, during which U.S. H-bombs were under test in the Marshall Islands, helped rewrite the basic U.S. atomic energy law to get the U.S. into the atoms-for-peace business. Last year he also put in a stint as a member of the U.S. delegation that helped set up the first world atoms-for-peace organization, the International Atomic Energy Agency.

Last week Stub Cole found that the well-worn path through Congress could also be a path into the unknown. After some behind-scenes grumbling by Russia, directors of the fledgling IAEA, meeting in Vienna, elected Cole their first director-general with a probable salary of $20,000 a year and a $10,000 expense account.

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