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Peter MacDonald, 45, elected chief of the 150,000-member Navajo Indian nation, is rapidly becoming the foremost spokesman for all Southwestern Indians. He is a World War II Marine and University of Oklahoma-educated engineer who once worked on the Polaris missile project; his guiding principle is to adopt change when it really represents progress and to hold to tradition when it does not. Under his leadership since 1970, more Navajos than ever before are attending college; paved roads and shopping centers are being built and industries developed on the Navajo reservation, which is the size of West Virginia. MacDonald has led an effective fight against further commercial development of the Indians' sacred San Francisco Peaks near Flagstaff, Ariz., already the site of a ski area.
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Bruce K. MacLaury, 43. AS president of the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank, MacLaury oversees economic affairs in an area from Michigan to Montana. He also co-chairs a 40-member panel charged with mapping a development strategy for the state of Minnesota and serves on the board of the Guthrie repertory theater and on a citizens' committee dealing with long-range financing for the school system in the Minneapolis suburb where he and his family live. Recalling what Woodrow Wilson said about their alma mater —"Princeton in the nation's service"—MacLaury says: "That gets everybody fired up for about two minutes, but some of it hangs on to you."
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C. Peter Magrath, 41."I call myself a university man and that's where my loyalties are," declares the incoming president of the University of Minnesota. Magrath (pronounced Ma-graw) grew up in Brooklyn, is a 1955 summa cum laude graduate of the University of New Hampshire and a Ph.D. in government from Cornell. Before his selection to head the nation's tenth largest university system (49,935 full-time students), he was president of the State University of New York at Binghamton. At Minnesota, faced with mushrooming costs and declining enrollment, he has begun a review of the school's long-term goals to determine whether new priorities should be adopted.
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Thomas C. Maloney, 32, has stunned even fellow Democrats with his innovations since he became mayor of Wilmington, Del., two years ago. The LaSalle College graduate filled city hall with young academicians. After a cost analysis of city services, he cut garbage collection crews by 40% (precipitating an unsuccessful strike), proposed similar reductions in fire department and school administration personnel. While offering tax incentives to businesses to locate in Wilmington, he started the nation's first urban homesteading program: abandoned buildings are given to people willing to make improvements. Maloney is expected to run for the U.S. Senate in 1976.
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Charles Manatt, 33, heads his own law firm, is the founder of a Los Angeles bank, and owns 1,300 acres of farmland in Iowa, where he was raised. But his real work is politics. Chairman of the Democratic Party for Southern California, he has worked for Democratic candidates in every state or national election since 1962,