Charles Odegaard, 55, Washington; One of the fastest climbers among the newer presidents, he is so active that his regents a few years ago ordered him to take a vacation. Recently, the Carnegie Corporation of New York gave him a three-month travel grant just to refresh himself—this week he is on the Mediterranean. Once a history professor, he moved to the Seattle post in 1958 from the deanship of Michigan's College of Literature, Science and the Arts.
O. Meredith Wilson, 56, Minnesota. A warm man with a dry humor and an analytic mind, he is an ideal moderator who manages to shape...