Special Section: 200 Faces for the Future

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including Lyndon Johnson, Hubert Humphrey and George McGovern. Manatt too has ambitions: his target is appointment to a top government job or election to office within the next five years.

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Donald B. Marron, 39. The president and chief executive of Mitchell, Hutchins Inc., a major Wall Street institutional brokerage firm, started his own investment banking firm in 1958. Seven years later he merged with Mitchell, Hutchins, then a small Chicago firm and by 1969 was its president. Shifting emphasis from small-investor business to the institutional trade just in time to catch the new wave in the market, he has seen revenues grow by more than 40% a year since 1966 (last year's total: $20 million). One of his innovations has been to hire noted experts in other fields (Henry Kissinger, Bill Moyers [see below], Economist Otto Eckstein, Columnist David Broder) to relate politics, foreign affairs and economics to investments.

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Joseph S. Mattina, 41. A high degree of visibility distinguishes this county court judge. Four years after his 1965 appointment to the Buffalo city court, Republican Mattina won a ten-year term on the Erie County (N.Y.) court with bipartisan support. Refusing offers to run for statewide office, Mattina prefers to continue attacking root problems of urban society, among them alcoholism and unfair employment practices. A vigorous crusade against drug abuse has carried him from lecture halls to San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury clinic, where he spent one vacation as a volunteer worker.

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Joseph D. McNamara, 39. The police chief of Kansas City, Mo., is the youngest in any major city and the only police officer in the U.S. with a Harvard doctorate in public administration. The Bronx-born son of a New York policeman, McNamara pounded a beat in Harlem for ten years. After he succeeded Clarence Kelley, now head of the FBI, McNamara caught a lot of flak—including an unsuccessful lawsuit charging that he lacked the required experience for his job. McNamara wants to apply computer analysis to crime prevention and to eradicate Hollywood's image of cops. "The norm of police work is not violence," he says. "Most of a policeman's time is spent helping people."

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Gerald Carl Meyers, 45. As a vice president in charge of product planning for American Motors Corp. Meyers urges his designers and engineers to create smaller cars that consume less gas. With a degree from Carnegie Tech and a classical background in autos—he held responsible jobs at Ford and Chrysler—Meyers has developed a keen appreciation for the conflicts between zooming costs and design innovation. Now Meyers is a champion of the rotary engine and is experimenting with an auto whose engine would be in the middle of the vehicle.

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Andrew Pickens Miller, 41, first sampled Virginia politics while chauffeuring his father Francis Pickens Miller, an anti-Byrd, anti-machine candidate, through an unsuccessful 1949 campaign for Governor. After Princeton and the University of Virginia Law School, the younger Miller became president of Virginia's Young Democrats and in 1969, in his first bid for public office, won election as state attorney general. Last year he was re-elected with 71 % of the vote. A moderate who has led the legal fight against busing in Virginia schools, Miller is a

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