Special Section: 200 Faces for the Future

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its ironic side—her doctoral research at the University of Michigan paved the way for subsequent studies revealing that most American women fear success. The daughter of Greek immigrants, raised in Boston's mixed ethnic section of Roxbury, Horner attended Boston Girls' Latin School and Bryn Mawr College. One of her tasks is presiding over the integration of Radcliffe and Harvard under one university umbrella on a trial basis. Her major concern: helping women and minority groups achieve equal access to education and jobs.

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Michael B. Howard, 31. "We want to make waves," asserts Rocky Mountain News Managing Editor Howard. "What better advertising is there than that?" This spring the increasingly splashy News exposed as a phony Ph.D. the official running the state air pollution control program, caught the state revenue director in a conflict of interests and has waged a running battle with Colorado polluters. Grandson of the co-founder of the Scripps-Howard newspaper chain, young Howard was raised in New York City, took his B.A. at Yale in Russian literature. He has helped add about 30,000 new subscribers to the once listless tabloid (circ. 219,000) since joining it in 1965, making it a real challenger to the flabby Denver Post.

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John Jay Iselin, 40. As federal and foundation support for public television continues to shrink, the president of the Manhattan-based Educational Broadcasting Corporation and boss of its lively station, WNET (Channel 13), is forced to scramble for funds to keep his operations going. His innovative approach to programming has brought viewers The American Family and the Theater in America series, VD Blues and ballet, movie classics and public affairs programs. By stationing fund raisers in front of elegant stores like Tiffany's, he has helped boost the number of contributors to Channel 13 from 50,000 to 200,000. Before joining the station as general manager three years ago, Iselin, a Harvard Ph.D. in government, was a Congressional Quarterly writer, Newsweek senior editor and Harper & Row publishing executive.

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Maynard Holbrook Jackson Jr., 36, entered politics at the top in 1968 by challenging Georgia's Senator Herman Talmadge. He lost the primary but carried Atlanta by 6,000 votes, within a year was elected the city's vice mayor. A hulking (280 lbs.), courtly, articulate attorney who graduated from Morehouse College at 18, the well-connected Jackson last year won Atlanta's mayoralty to become the first black leader of a major Southern city. Popular with both the black and white business communities in Atlanta, he is likely to run again for the Senate if and when Talmadge steps down, but with blacks accounting for only 26% of Georgia's population, he faces an uphill battle.

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J. Bennett Johnston Jr., 42, a conservative Democrat from northern Louisiana, began his climb in his state's house of representatives a decade ago. Though he failed to win the Democratic nomination for Governor in 1971, the following year he captured the U.S. Senate seat vacated by the death of Allen Ellender. A racial moderate, Johnston is an exceptionally effective television candidate. He has co-sponsored an extension of national wage-price controls and, for his oil-rich home state, has proposed building a port for supertankers.

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Clarence B.