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Arthur R. Taylor, 39, found the study of Renaissance history at Brown University so stimulating that he contemplated a teaching career and served briefly as an admissions officer. But after taking his master's in U.S. economic history at Brown, he joined the investment banking house of First Boston Corp. instead. Stunningly adept at financial analysis, he rose to a vice presidency and the board of directors by 1969, joined International Paper Co. a year later and revamped its financial structure. In 1972, though inexperienced in broadcasting, the corporate Wunderkind was tapped for the presidency of CBS. An outspoken opponent of Government interference with the media, he has also taken steps to accelerate the advancement of women at the network.
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Nancy Teeters, 43, is one of Washington's most knowledgeable people on the federal budget, Government programs, and the impact of federal spending and taxing on the economy. As a member of the Library of Congress's legislative reference service, she passes that expertise on to hundreds of Congressmen and other policymakers. The Marion, Ind., native studied at Oberlin and the University of Michigan, came to the capital in 1957 as a Federal Reserve Board economist, later worked with the Council of Economic Advisers during the Kennedy Administration.
For three years she helped produce the Brookings Institution's series Setting National Priorities—influential analyses of the federal budget and its implications for future Government policy.
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James R. Thompson Jr., 38, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, has done more to dismantle Chicago Mayor Richard Daley's political machine than all his predecessors combined. In less than three years he has convicted former Illinois Governor Otto Kerner, Cook County Clerk Edward Barrett, three aldermen, two police captains and more than a dozen other state and local officials, most of them Democrats. A strapping (6 ft. 6 in.) Chicago native and ex-law professor who describes himself as a "middle-of-the-road" Republican, "Big Jim" Thompson is the favorite choice of Cook County Republicans to run for Daley's office in 1975.
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Lester C. Thurow, 36, has been a full professor of economics and management at M.I.T. since he was 33. Montana-born, educated at Williams, Oxford (as a Rhodes scholar) and Harvard, Thurow was a staffer for the Council of Economic Advisers during the opening shots of Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty. As a member of George McGovern's 1972 Cambridge brain trust, he proposed a potent inheritance tax as a step toward redistributing the 45% of the wealth held by 2.5% of the U.S. population. That and other such programs stirred a row, says Thurow, because "our society has