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Marian Wright Edelman, 35. A graduate of Spelman College and Yale Law School, Marian Wright became the first black woman admitted to the bar in Mississippi. In 1968 she went to Washington, soon became chief counsel to Ralph Abernathy's Poor People's Campaign. Later, as director of the Washington Research Project, a public-interest law firm, she pressed the Government to enforce federal agency guidelines in desegregation cases. With husband Peter (see below), Mrs. Edelman moved to Boston in 1970, is now director of the Children's Defense Fund, a broadened outgrowth of her Washington work. Her current concern: treatment of retarded, poor and handicapped children by public schools and other institutions.
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Peter Edelman, 36. Like many New Frontier veterans, this onetime legislative assistant to Robert Kennedy has taken a sabbatical from politics—he is now vice president for university policy and planning at the University of Massachusetts. "Some of us who have been enamored of Washington tended to forget how much you can accomplish at the local level," says the Minneapolis-born, Harvard-educated Edelman, who has launched university courses for prison inmates and other nontraditional students. Like his wife Marian, he is a supporter of children's rights. A onetime law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg, Edelman worked for Common Cause before he went to UMass in 1971.
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Lewis A. Engman, 38, was expected to be an obedient errand boy when he was named last year to head the Federal Trade Commission, which the Nixon Administration felt had become a bit too aggressive. But the Harvard lawyer has shown a broad streak of independence. For starters, he filed an antitrust suit against Exxon and seven other major oil companies who both produce and distribute oil. With Ralph Nader as ally and Budget Director Roy Ash as adversary, Engman has been fighting to require more detailed financial reporting from major U.S. corporations. Recently he attacked TV ads aimed at children. With Engman's approval, an investigation of food pricing is contemplated, and several in the energy field are currently under way.
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M. Stanton Evans, 39, has spoken eloquently for conservative viewpoints in such books as The Future of Conservatism and The Politics of Surrender and in newspaper editorials of consistently high quality. Chairman of the American Conservative Union, Texas-born Evans developed his philosophy at Yale in the 1950s. He refined it in various journalistic jobs: editor of a short-lived special Louisville, Ky., edition of William Buckley's National Review; managing editor of Human Events; and 15 years with the Indianapolis News as chief editorial writer, news editor and, since February, as senior editor.
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Marshall Field V, 33, was only two years out of Harvard when his father died and left him heir to Field Enterprises, Inc., one of the nation's largest publishers (Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Daily News, World Book Encyclopedia). He spent the next five years training to fill his father's shoes—and earning a considerable reputation as a bon vivant. A moderate with occasionally liberal political views, Field has grown into a tough,