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Robert J. Fitzpatrick, 34, a Canadian-born, onetime Jesuit seminarian, holds a master's degree in medieval French and oscillates between Johns Hopkins University, where he is dean of students, and city hall, where he is Baltimore's youngest city councilman. "More people should spend a limited time in public office, rather than a lifetime," says Fitzpatrick, a liberal Democrat. His goal: to be a U.S. Senator and a college president—not simultaneously.
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Patrick Flores, 44. He tried to quit school twice but returned at his parents' urging. In 1970 Flores, son of a migrant worker, became the first Mexican American to be named a Roman Catholic bishop. One of nine children, he grew up near Houston, graduated from St. Mary's Seminary there, was ordained in 1956.
Flores closely identifies with his many Mexican-American parishioners. Raising more than $20,000 for Mexico's earthquake victims, Flores ignored Mexican President Luis Echeverría's declaration that no U.S. aid would be accepted, went to Mexico and personally distributed the funds.
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Houston I. Flournoy, 44, a Princeton-educated Ph.D. (political science), won by more votes in his 1970 race for California controller than the margins of the three other major Republican candidates combined. A three-term California assemblyman, Flournoy is a boyish-looking, easygoing politician who outpolled three opponents by almost 2 to 1 in June's primary for the G.O.P. nomination to succeed Governor Ronald Reagan when he steps down at the end of this year. Known as the ranking "liberal" in the Reagan administration ("moderate" would be more accurate), Flournoy was untainted by the Watergate-related scandals that tarred a number of California Republicans.
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Max Franke1, 44. As Sunday editor of the New York Times, he runs an empire within an empire. Frankel began his Times career as a stringer, joined the paper full-time after graduating from Columbia University in 1952. Born in Germany, Frankel fled the Nazis with his family in 1938; 18 years later he returned to Europe to cover the Hungarian revolt and serve as Moscow correspondent. In Washington, Frankel established himself as one of America's top diplomatic reporters, winning the influential job of Times bureau chief there in 1968. Frankel picked up a Pulitzer Prize in 1973 for his dispatches from China, the same year he took over as Sunday editor.
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Charles E. Fraser, 45, bought a 4,000-acre tract on South Carolina's Hilton Head Island from his father in 1956 and during the next decade turned it into an elegant retreat for the well-heeled and sports-minded. A Yale-educated lawyer, Fraser earned a reputation as an ecology-minded developer who left Hilton Head's rich marshlands and nature trails intact. He has lately extended his Sea Pines resort empire to Florida, Puerto Rico and Daufuskie Island, S.C.
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Louis Frey Jr., 40, though he lacks both age and seniority, was unanimously elected by his colleagues last year as chairman of the House Republican Research Committee, one of six official House leadership positions. A middle-of-the-road third-term