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Paul Spyros Sarbanes, 41, calls himself an "urban populist." After a single term in Maryland's House of Delegates, this liberal Democrat toppled 13-term Congressman George Fallen in 1970. A Judiciary Committee member, he was one of only ten Representatives named to a select committee that recently recommended a reshuffling of jurisdictions within the House committee structure The thoughtful son of a Greek-born restaurant owner, Sarbanes is a former Princeton basketball player, Rhodes scholar and Harvard law graduate.
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John C. Sawhill, 38. The Baltimore native had been in Government only 13 months when he succeeded William Simon as chief of the Federal Energy Administration and its staff of 2,000. The crisis had eased by then, but the problem remained: constructing a policy to free the U.S. from dependence on foreign oil. A Princeton-trained administrator with a Ph.D. in economics and finance from New York University, Sawhill has pledged a blueprint for "Project Independence" by Nov. 1. To go to Washington he took a $60,000 pay cut from his $100,000-a-year vice presidency at Commercial Credit Co.
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Henry B. Schacht, 39, went from Harvard's Business Administration School to a small management outfit run by a member of the board of Cummins Engine Co. He soon was lured to Cummins, a manufacturer of heavy-duty diesels based in Columbus, Ind., as financial vice president. Within five years, at age 35, he became president. While rapidly expanding the company (1973 net sales: $686 million), Schacht has tenaciously supported strict antipollution standards and advocated a more socially conscious stance for industry. Business, he says, should create change and force its pace.
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Patricia Schroeder, 33. "If businesses were run the same way Congress is, the country would be shut down," says Colorado's freshman Representative. A Democrat, she is the first woman to be sent to Congress from her state. A former law instructor and attorney for the National Labor Relations Board Schroeder is a Portland, Ore., native, graduated Phi Beta Kappa in three years from the University of Minnesota and earned a Harvard doctorate. In her re-election campaign she is emphasizing the need for congressional reform, improved mass transit and better child-care facilities.
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Howard Simons, 45. "Don't gloat," Simons advised his colleagues on the day John Ehrlichman and H.R. Haldeman resigned from the White House. As managing editor of the Washington Post Simons was instrumental in launching and sustaining the paper's superb day-to-day coverage of the Watergate story. Simons, an award-winning science reporter for the Post, became managing editor in 1971, ten years after joining the paper that he and Executive Editor Ben Bradlee have turned into one of the country's best.
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William S. Singer, 33. At the 1968 Democratic Convention Singer saw Chicago Mayor Richard Daley deliver the Illinois votes without polling the delegation. "I realized then that we had to work from the bottom up to bring out a more open political process." In a stunning upset, the independent Democrat was elected alderman in a strong machine ward in 1969, by 1972 was