Special Section: 200 Faces for the Future

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order," says Railsback, "he's impeached. It's that simple."

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Charles B. Rangel, 44, a former high school dropout, now represents one of the nation's largest black communities in Congress. A Harlem native, Rangel returned to New York City after combat in Korea to win a law degree, appointment as an Assistant U.S. Attorney and election to the state assembly. After a bruising contest in 1970, he narrowly defeated Adam Clayton Powell for the Democratic nomination to Congress. Two years later he was re-elected with 96% of his district's vote. The ebullient Rangel is chairman of the congressional Black Caucus and a Judiciary Committee member who outspokenly advocates the President's impeachment.

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Dan Rather, 42. "Are you running for something?" asked Richard Nixon when Rather was applauded at a Houston press conference. "No sir, Mr. President," was the response. "Are you?" Such volleys have made Rather, who has covered the White House for CBS on and off since 1964, a nationally recognized combatant in the cold war between the President and the press. Rather has a nervy knack for eliciting newsmaking answers from Presidents and other potentates. Texas-born, educated at Sam Houston State College, Rather joined CBS in 1962, covered racial strife in the South and the Kennedy assassination in Dallas before being sent to the White House and later to Viet Nam. He has won Emmy Awards for his Watergate reporting and coverage of the George Wallace shooting in 1972.

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Richard Ravitch, 41, studied law at Yale before becoming president of his family's HRH Construction Corp., whose volume totaled $150 million last year. In addition to erecting such well-known Manhattan structures as the Whitney Museum and Gulf & Western Building, Ravitch has attacked slum housing by putting up low-rent skyscraper developments in Harlem and Lower Manhattan. A politically active liberal Democrat, he now is a director of the National Committee Against Discrimination in Housing and the Fair Campaign Practices Committee.

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Robert D. Ray, 45, Republican Governor of Iowa since 1968, is widely respected for his integrity (he accepts no campaign contributions greater than $1,000). Ray quietly guided 31 bills through the 1974 legislature, including a measure requiring the creation of a department of transportation. A Drake law graduate, he advanced through the ranks as a Republican Party worker, in 1963 was named state G.O.P. chairman to help bring an end to party factionalism before winning a three-way race for Governor.

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John S. Reed, 35, an industrial management graduate of M.I.T., four years ago became the youngest executive vice president in the history of First National City Bank. Put in charge of the tangle-prone back office at New York's largest bank, he approached the operation—which employed 8,000 people and had a $100 million budget—as if it were a factory whose product was processed paper. To help him run the factory, Reed recruited experienced industrial employees from Ford and Chrysler. Regarded as a potential successor to Citibank's presidency, Reed has written articles seeking to interest students in corporate careers and is now studying the electronic (paperless) transmission of credit.

156 Joseph Rhodes Jr., 26. Though he was the

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