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Albert Hofstede, 33, wanted to go to medical school, but his application was late, and so he had to take a civil service job with the state of Minnesota to make ends meet. The son of a Dutch-born truck driver, Hofstede decided to stay in government, became a Minneapolis alderman at 26. Last year he was elected mayor of Minneapolis in a startling upset over the law-and-order incumbent, Police Detective Charles Stenvig. Since taking office, he has begun an ambitious multimillion-dollar urban-renovation plan, reorganized equipment to provide better mass-transit service and placed considerable emphasis on preserving the flavor—and safety—of Minneapolis' old neighborhoods.
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James F. Hoge Jr.,38. The editor of the Chicago Sun-Times, seventh largest U.S. morning newspaper (circ. 569,000), started as a police reporter after graduating from Yale, then was a White House correspondent before becoming assistant city editor in 1964. Son of a wealthy New York City lawyer, he became editor in 1968, has brightened layouts, emphasized investigative reporting and broadened coverage of the underprivileged. A handsome bachelor-about-town since his divorce from Alice Patterson Albright, whose family of Medills and Pattersons made newspaper history with their Chicago Tribune, New York Daily News and the late Washington Times-Herald, the politically liberal Hoge has seen Sun-Timesmen collect four Pulitzer Prizes, while the paper's circulation rose by more than 40,000 under his editorship.
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Richard Holbrooke, 33, a Brown University history major, worked on Viet Nam policy as an ambassadorial assistant in Saigon, in the State Department and as a member of the U.S. delegation to the Paris peace talks. In 1972 his late but growing reputation as a pithy critic of some aspects of U.S. foreign relations helped win him the managing editorship of Foreign Policy magazine, a small (circ. 12,000) but increasingly influential quarterly with an eye for such lively, sometimes irreverent details as Columbia Professor Zbigniew Brzezinski's recent report card on the Nixon Administration's foreign policy (overall 1974 grade C+, compared with a B for 1971).
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Elizabeth Holtzman,33, challenged Emanuel Celler in 1972 for the congressional seat that he had held for 50 years, and her vigorous campaign convinced Brooklyn's 16th District that it was indeed time for a change. As a House freshman, she brought suit against the Defense Department and the Air Force to stop the bombing in Cambodia but lost in the Supreme Court. A graduate of Radcliffe and Harvard Law School, Holtzman spent summers working on civil rights cases in Georgia and served a three-year stint as an assistant to former New York Mayor John Lindsay. She is now a member of the House Judiciary Committee.
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Matina Souretis Horner, 34. When this expert on feminine achievement was elevated from assistant professor of clinical psychology at Harvard to sixth president of Radcliffe College in 1972, she became an instant role model for U.S. women. Her success has