Special Section: 200 Faces for the Future

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able to unseat Daley's delegates at the Democratic Convention. A onetime aide to Illinois' former Senator Paul Douglas, Singer was schooled at Brandeis and Columbia law. He has announced his candidacy to challenge Daley in next February's mayoralty primary.

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Harvey I. Sloane, 38. The fragile appearance is deceptive; Sloane plays championship squash and jogs two miles every morning before taking up his work as mayor of Louisville. Son of a Manhattan broker, Sloane is a graduate of Case Western Reserve Medical School who worked with the U.S. Public Health Service in Appalachia. In Louisville he has encouraged hundreds of volunteers for city programs and has established a health center in a poor black area. Using his clinic as a base, he won a resounding victory last November over a popular former Louisville chief of police.

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Michael Sovern, 41. The dean of Columbia University's Law School is a skillful labor mediator (earlier this year he helped resolve a dispute that could have led to a transit strike) as well as an imaginative educator (he has proposed a program in which students will serve as apprentice lawyers). Severn was summa cum laude at Columbia, took his law degree there before joining the faculty in 1957. After the spring riots in 1968, he helped establish a university senate that has kept the campus cool ever since. Two years later he was appointed dean. Although he avoids politics, he did use his position to protest the Attorney General's use of wiretaps.

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Stephen Stamas, 43, has proved to be something of a heretic since becoming public-affairs chief for the gargantuan Exxon Corp. in June 1973. Youngest of the company's 13 vice presidents, Stamas muses that oil companies might be able to manage quite well without an oil depletion allowance today had prices been hiked gradually in the past. A Rhodes scholar and Harvard Ph.D. in economics, Stamas joined Exxon in 1960 as a financial analyst, rose to head its international petroleum planning division before a six-month tour of duty in the U.S. Commerce Department. Before joining the public-affairs department in 1971, Stamas spent nearly a year as chief economist working on oil-import policy at Exxon.

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Alan W. Steelman,32, a G.O.P. moderate from Dallas, spent nearly three years with the Nixon Administration promoting minority enterprise before he became the youngest Republican member of the House of Representatives in 1973. Despite his youth, the Baylor-educated Steelman was a major force behind legislation requiring Senate confirmation of the director of the Office of Management and Budget and of the deputy director. Steelman led a successful fight last year to prevent construction of a $1.6 billion, ecologically damaging barge canal between Dallas and the Gulf of Mexico. Because his district has been redrawn and is now 60% Democratic, he faces a tough re-election fight.

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William A. Steiger, 36. Often mistaken for a page during his freshman term on Capitol Hill, this energetic Republican has matured into a masterly legislative technician. A fourth-term Congressman from Oshkosh, Wis., he was elected to the statehouse after his 1960 graduation from the University of Wisconsin and at 28 won a seat in the U.S. House. A leading advocate of the volunteer army, Steiger sponsored the Occupational Safety and Health Act of

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