Special Section: 200 Faces for the Future

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days as U.S. Ambassador to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. After a brief stint in investment banking, Rumsfeld was elected Congressman from suburban Chicago's affluent North Shore in 1962, earned a reputation as a moderate conservative. In 1969 President Nixon persuaded him to give up a promising House career to direct the Office of Economic Opportunity. Appointed to NATO in 1973, he may be thinking of taking on Governor Daniel Walker in 1976.

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Bill Russell, 40, has been a big man in professional sports since 1956, when he led the University of San Francisco to its second straight national championship and won an Olympic gold medal as a member of the triumphant U.S. basketball team. Soon afterward the 6-ft. 9½-in. Russell joined the Boston Celtics, and in 13 years of competition he was named most valuable player five times and starred on eleven championship teams. During two of those championship seasons (1968 and 1969), Russell was player-coach for the Celts, the first.black coach in the history of the National Basketball Association. Since 1973 the Louisiana-born Russell has been at the helm of the newly formed Seattle Super-Sonics.

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Martin Olav Sabo, 36. As the Democratic-Farmer-Labor speaker of Minnesota's house, Sabo has political power second only to that of Governor Anderson. Sabo grew up in Alkabo, N. Dak., worked his way through Augsburg College in Minneapolis, ran for the state legislature only a year after graduating. He won again and again, each time carrying on old-fashioned doorbell-ringing campaigns. In 1969 he was elected minority leader, became house speaker when the D.F.L. won the house four years later. He calls himself "a pragmatic liberal"; as speaker, he manages rather than initiates bills.

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Carl Sagan, 39, director of Cornell's Laboratory for Planetary Studies, is the nation's leading researcher and writer in exobiology the study of extraterrestrial life. A former Harvard astronomer, he has helped develop models for the atmospheres of other planets and for the conditions on primitive earth. He and a Cornell colleague created the celebrated "extraterrestrial message," showing a nude man and woman along with mathematical and astronomical symbols, that rode out of the solar system aboard Pioneer 10.

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Thomas P. Salmon, 42, in 1973 became Vermont's second Democratic Governor in 119 years. He was helped by a divisive GOP primary and a shirtsleeve campaign against development: "Vermont is not for sale " A lawyer who was a judge at 30 and the youngest minority leader in the history of the state house of representatives at 35, Salmon has helped enact stringent laws to control land development and speculation. Rather than seek retiring Senator George Aiken's seat he is running for a second term, intending to complete the programs he has begun.

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Robert Sanchez, 40. The newly appointed Archbishop of Santa Fe, a native New Mexican who spent four years studying theology Rome's Gregorian University, vaulted to eminence from a parish priesthood in Albuquerque. Sanchez is a pleasantly informal clergyman who has already stirred up his predominantly Hispanic Roman Catholic archdiocese in New Mexico. He has requested that the churches in his domain contribute a Sunday's offering to Cesar Chavez's farm workers'