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Ronald V. Dellums, 38. Running for Congress in 1970, Berkeley City Councilman Dellums won votes for his antiwar stand and picked up another bundle when Spiro Agnew called him a "radical extremist." "If being an advocate of peace, justice and humanity toward all human beings is radical," he responded, "then I am a radical." Completing his second term and probably en route to a third as Democratic Congressman from California's Eighth District, Dellums still leans far to the left; he was one of only eight House members to earn a perfect score in the latest rating of the ecology-minded League of Conservation Voters. A Marine Corps veteran, Dellums is a former psychiatric social worker.
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Ralph DeNunzio, 42, chief operating officer of the investment banking firm of Kidder, Peabody since 1967, predicts an eventual daily market volume of at least 20 million shares. DeNunzio was elected to a three-year term as a governor of the New York Stock Exchange in 1968 and helped develop a method of insuring customer accounts in the event of a firm's financial failure. As chairman of the exchange in 1971 and 1972, the Princeton-educated DeNunzio oversaw the paring of the board from 33 to 20 members and the creation of a salaried, full-time chairman. As head of the exchange's costs and revenue committee, he succeeded in bringing the commission rate structure into line with Wall Street's current capital needs.
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Pete V. Domenici, 42, an all-conference pitcher at the University of New Mexico, found the political strike zone in 1972 when he won a seat in the U.S. Senate. The son of Italian immigrants, Lawyer Domenici was elected a city commissioner in Albuquerque in 1966, city chairman a year later, and he pushed hard for Model Cities and urban-renewal programs. Though he lost a gubernatorial bid in 1970, two years later this once liberal Republican endorsed right-wing positions against gun control and abortion and won 54% of the vote in his Senate race. In his rookie term, Domenici sought higher fuel allocations for his state during the energy crisis, and explored problems facing the elderly.
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Pierre S. du Pont IV, 39, whose family founded the chemical company that has the tallest industrial smokestacks in Delaware, won his seat in Congress in 1970 by campaigning for stricter controls on industrial pollution. A Republican whose victory margins have broken records, "Pete" du Pont has been working hard to link his name with clean politics as well as clean air. He rejects contributions in excess of $100 from anyone, including himself, has voluntarily disclosed his net worth ($2.5 million), and has been an outspoken critic of the Administration on Watergate. His rating from the choosy League of Women Voters: a respectable 83%.
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Gerald M. Edelman, 45, is an accomplished violinist who once chaired a symposium on the scientific basis of stringed instruments. He is better known as the discoverer of the molecular structure and composition of antibodies, the blood proteins that combat disease in the body. The 1972 Nobel laureate was born in New York City, educated at Ursinus College and the University of Pennsylvania Medical School. Now a specialist in immunology, he