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H. John Heinz III, 35, has found politics more to his taste than the more than 57 varieties of food found in his family's business. Now completing his first full term in Congress, Republican Heinz represents a Pennsylvania district that embraces both aristocratic exurbs and grimy mill towns. He specializes in health and environmental affairs, has toiled to keep his Pittsburgh-area fences in good repair, and is a shoo-in for reelection. A graduate of Yale and the Harvard Business School, Heinz is a moderate who has fought with the Administration to end U.S. involvement in Viet Nam and to secure funds for the national Community Mental Health Centers Program.
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Rafael Hernández Colon, 37, wrote a brilliant thesis as a law student in Puerto Rico, outlining the cultural, political and economic advantages of the island's commonwealth status. After serving as Secretary of Justice, President of the Senate and head of the Popular Democratic Party, Hernández in 1972 upset the incumbent and became the youngest Governor in Puerto Rican history. Today, with his old thesis for a platform, Hernández is concentrating on improving his island's troubled economy. To increase efficiency, the commonwealth is purchasing the telephone company, and to reduce high freight costs, Hernández is negotiating to buy several shipping lines and consolidate them under commonwealth ownership.
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Stephen H. Hess, 41. Scholar-Activist Hess alternates between working in Government and writing about it. A senior fellow at Washington's Brookings Institution, a nonprofit organization that analyzes public policy, he is a Johns Hopkins political science graduate who briefly taught government, at 26 became a White House speechwriter under Dwight Eisenhower. In 1969 he was appointed national chairman of the White House Conference on Children and Youth. Writer or co-author of five books on politics, he is now writing Organizing the Presidency, a book he describes as a primer for future Presidents.
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Luther H. Hodges Jr., 37, is the son of a former Governor of North Carolina, and political observers in the Tarheel State expect him to launch his own bid for the statehouse before the decade is out. Hard-driving and talented, Hodges is chairman of the North Carolina National Bank, which he has helped propel from 65th to 25th largest in the U.S. (assets: $2.7 billion) in the last 14 years. A Phi Beta Kappa from the University of North Carolina and a Harvard Business School graduate, Hodges has never held a public elective office, but he has been active in such civic affairs as the state's manpower development corporation, which trains school dropouts for jobs, and in county Democratic politics.
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James Fred Hofheinz, 36, won only a paper-thin victory last January to become mayor of Houston, America's sixth largest city (pop. 1,233,000), but that has not prevented him from making some unpopular decisions. A Ph.D. in economics and son of Astrodome King Roy ("Judge") Hofheinz, he has raised property taxes 81/2% and water