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Richard Kattel, 38, dazzled the financial community with his rapid climb to the presidency of Atlanta's Citizens and Southern National Bank, whose $3 billion in assets make it one of the largest in the South. Son of a New York City banker, Kattel joined C & S as a trainee in 1958, later attended Harvard's Program for Management Development. A hard-driving executive who gets to work each day by 7 a.m., Kattel was jumped over many more senior officers to the top job in 1971 and became chairman last month. Kattel has led C & S into heavy investing in Georgia, and the bank's program of loans to black enterprise is a model. A poster on the wall of his office reads: "Either lead, follow or get out of the way."
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Doris H. Kearns, 31. As a White House Fellow in 1967 she danced with Lyndon Johnson five days before publication of her New Republic article, "How to Remove L.B.J. in 1968." Johnson might have dumped Kearns. Instead, he asked the Harvard government professor to edit his memoirs. She did, writing as well a soon-to-be-released psychohistory of Johnson subtitled "The Tyranny of Benevolence." A graduate of Colby College with a Ph.D. from Harvard, Kearns has her eye on a policymaking position in a future Democratic Administration.
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Jack Kemp, 38, played quarterback for the San Diego Chargers and Buffalo Bills before he decided to call some political plays as a Republican Congressman from the Buffalo, N.Y., suburbs. An outspoken conservative, Kemp was narrowly elected to Congress in 1970, won re-election two years later with 73% of the vote. A staunch environmentalist and strong national security advocate, he introduced 115 bills in Congress during his first term. "Problems are not problems; they are opportunities," Kemp says.
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Edward M. Kennedy, 42. With his magic name and broad appeal, the Democratic Senator from Massachusetts can practically write his own ticket—including a presidential one. Teddy's recent trip to the Soviet Union and Western Europe, plus his well-publicized sponsorship of health-care legislation and an income tax cut, may well be the opening shots in a bid for the White House. But the twelve-year Senate veteran has been troubled by illness within his immediate family, and by public memories of Chappaquiddick.
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Billie Jean King, 30. One of the world's leading sports personalities, she has won five Wimbledon championships. For the past three years she has earned more than $100,000 annually; largely because of her audience appeal, the once measly purses on the women's tour are now nearly on a par with those paid to men. In 1973 feminist supporters everywhere applauded as she ran Bobby Riggs, the male supremacist, off the court. This year King and her husband are co-publishing a new magazine, womenSports.
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Richard F. Kneip, 41. In the past two years Governor Kneip, a Democrat, has trimmed South Dakota's executive branch from 160 departments to 14, set up a state personnel system