Special Section: 200 Faces for the Future

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only black in the class of 1969 at Caltech, Rhodes, the son of a steelworker, was twice elected student-body president—a foretaste of his current political career. As a junior fellow at Harvard, he was named the youngest member of the President's Commission on Campus Unrest in 1970, but soon joined the White House enemies list for wondering aloud whether Nixon's reference to "campus bums" had encouraged the killings at Kent State. Democrat Rhodes soon afterward quit his studies and in 1972 won election to the state legislature from Pittsburgh. He is virtually assured of re-election this year.

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Donald B. Rice, 35, took over the Rand Corp., the prototypical think tank, three years ago, at a time when the outfit was in deep disfavor with the Government because a former employee named Ellsberg had pinched some classified papers from its files. Young as he was, Rice was highly experienced: he became Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense just eight years out of college, and a year later, in 1970, was an assistant director at the Office of Management and Budget. Rice has sought to balance Rand's emphasis on war games and other national security matters by expanding its clientele and focusing on such domestic problems as urban decay, education programs and future energy needs.

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Donald W. Riegle Jr., 36. As an aggressive first-term Republican legislator from Flint, Mich., Riegle was named one of the nation's two best Congressmen by the Nation magazine in 1967 and quickly made known his presidential aspirations. Because of his liberal voting record, he and the G.O.P. soon soured on each other, a disenchantment he documented in a cathartic diary, O Congress. Last year he jumped to the Democratic Party ("I'm on the same wave length with Bella Abzug"). If he survives the turncoat stigma, as now appears likely, Riegle could be a contender for the Senate in 1976.

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John D. Rockefeller IV, 37. To his critics in West Virginia, Native New Yorker "Jay" Rockefeller is a suspect Democrat from a Republican family—and a carpetbagger to boot. Still, two years after arriving in Appalachia as a poverty worker, the nephew of Nelson Rockefeller and grandson of John D. Jr. easily won a seat in the state house of delegates, in 1968 was elected West Virginia's secretary of state. Handsome, rich, well educated (Exeter, Harvard, Yale) and well wed (his father-in-law is G.O.P. Senator Charles Percy), Rockefeller lost his bid for governorship in 1972 at least partly because he opposed strip mining. Now president of West Virginia Wesleyan College (enrollment: 1,525), he plans to try again in 1976.

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William D. Ruckelshaus, 41, lost his job in the Nixon Administration but preserved his reputation for integrity. A liberal Indiana Republican, he was the first freshman legislator ever elected majority leader of the Hoosier house. In 1970 he was named the first administrator of the federal Environmental Protection Agency, two years later replaced L. Patrick Gray as acting FBI director. Since his departure as Deputy Attorney General last October after refusing to sack Archibald Cox, he has visited 40 states and scores of campuses as a much-sought-after lecturer.

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Donald Rumsfeld, 42. A onetime Princeton wrestler, Rumsfeld occasionally finds himself grappling with boredom these