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Yvonne Brathwaite Burke, 41, had been an attorney for ten years when, in 1966, she became the first black woman ever elected to the California state assembly. After three terms, plus TV exposure as vice chairman of the 1972 Democratic Convention, she captured a newly created congressional district In Los Angeles, becoming the first woman to represent California in Congress In 20 years. An articulate advocate of consumer and environmental protection, women's and minority rights, she seems certain of re-election this fall and of a prominent role in the 1976 Democratic Convention.
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John H. Bustamante, 44. In 1971 he was named a director of Higbee's, Cleveland's largest department store; In 1972 he was elected to the board of the Northern Ohio Bank; In June he opened the First Bank and Trust of Cleveland, Ohio's only black-owned and -operated bank which he helped found. A wealthy Harvard graduate with a lucrative law practice, he moves easily in both black and white society, and through his ventures Is easing the way for more blacks to enter the economic mainstream. Born in Santiago, Cuba, he grew up in Atlanta. Future projects: black-owned radio and television stations and a major league baseball team.
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Patrick Caddell, 24. Already a veteran psephologist, Caddell did election projections for a local TV station as a high school student in Jacksonville, Fla. In 1970 he polled for Ohio's Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate (now Governor) John Gilligan at a salary of 18¢ an hour plus expenses and produced an ungainly —and largely unread—2,000-page report. But by 1971 the Harvard senior and two partners had refined their technique and formed Cambridge Survey Research. Their first of many clients: George McGovern, whom C.S.R. projected as the Democratic nominee. Next, C.S.R. plans to offer quarterly economic reports to business executives.
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Guido Calabresi, 41, professor at the Yale Law School, is tagged by his peers as Supreme Court or World Court material. A former Rhodes scholar and top-ranking Yale law graduate, Calabresi has frequently advised the U.S. Department of Transportation and various state agencies and is a member of Nelson Rockefeller's Commission on Critical Choices. He has recently been concentrating on an examination of modern technology and its effects; in 1970 he wrote The Cost of Accidents, a study that served as a prime source of data for the designers of the national no-fault insurance bill now before the House.
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Joseph A. Califano Jr., 43. A magna cum laude Harvard Law graduate, Califano was general counsel to the Department of the Army and chief troubleshooter for former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara before moving to the White House in 1965 as Lyndon Johnson's top domestic aide. In that capacity he coordinated almost all aspects of the President's ambitious Great Society legislative program. Currently writing a book about the presidency, Califano is actively involved in national Democratic Party affairs, and has been particularly successful in gaining some equal air time for