Special Section: 200 Faces for the Future

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basketball player, became legal counsel to Granduncle Carl Vinson's House Armed Services Committee shortly after earning his law degree from Emory University, then served two terms in the Georgia legislature before winning his Senate seat. Though he is rated a conservative, he enjoys widespread support from blacks as well as whites. As a hardworking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Nunn favors trimming substantial flab from U.S. forces in Europe, not as a step toward total withdrawal but toward greater combat effectiveness.

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Donal Neil O'Callaghan, 44, signs the name "Mike" to all documents issuing from the office of the Governor of Nevada, which he has occupied since an upset victory over a Republican in 1970. A former amateur boxer who lost a leg while trying to rescue a wounded companion in Korea, O'Callaghan has enjoyed a large measure of success with his social-services program, giving his state a strong consumer-affairs agency and a narcotics and drug-abuse program. A bluff, competitive native of Wisconsin and a graduate of the University of Idaho, he is given an edge in his race for re-election this year.

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Arthur Okun, 45, suffered withdrawal symptoms after the Democrats left the White House: "The phone never rang, and when it did, it was never the President." A wry former Yale professor who devised several economic "laws" that are now widely accepted in the field, Okun joined the Council of Economic Advisers in 1964, became its chairman in 1968. His warnings that inflation was to be feared more than recession led to a 10% tax surcharge. A Keynesian who advocates federal budget manipulation to correct economic imbalances, Okun served as adviser to both Edmund Muskie and George McGovern in 1972. Since 1969 the New Jersey-born, Columbia-educated Okun has been at the Brookings Institution.

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Wayne Owens, 37, is a likely successor to Utah's retiring Republican Senator Wallace Bennett, though he is just completing his freshman term in the House. Democrat Owens took his law degree from the University of Utah. In 1968 he became Bobby Kennedy's Rocky Mountain coordinator, thence an aide to Ted Kennedy, and in 1972 walked and talked his way through 700 miles of Utah's largely rural Second District. An effective critic of Congress's creaky machinery ("We lack the tools for the job"), Owens has proposed a major study of how best to streamline executive agencies, offered bills to improve Congress's oversight of laws passed by it.

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Bob Packwood, 41. In 1962 he was the youngest man in the Oregon legislature; six years later he bested Wayne Morse to become the 93rd Congress's youngest U.S. Senator. A Willamette University and N.Y.U. law alumnus, this hard-working Republican is concerned with congressional reorganization and environmental protection. Long before the Supreme Court's proabortion decision, he campaigned for nationally legalized abortion. Visiting the White House last fall he told President Nixon bluntly: "When you fired [Archibald] Cox, you broke your promise ... The public no longer believes you." This year he faces Morse in a rematch, has an early edge because of Morse's age (74).

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Nicholas A. Panuzio, 38, a roly-poly former administrator at the University of Bridgeport, his