Special Section: 200 Faces for the Future

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psychiatrist in the U.S., he is an authority on poverty and racial discrimination and a prolific author. His multivolume Children of Crisis, a study of the effect of social stress on children, won a 1973 Pulitzer for nonfiction. After studying at Harvard, Columbia and the University of Chicago, Coles joined the Harvard staff in 1963, and now lives near his native Boston. Viewing all men and women as strong and sensible, weak and full of faults, Coles voices faith in America: "This is the world's richest and most powerful nation, so it has not only the potentiality but the immediate possibility for reform."

Joan Ganz Cooney, 44, revolutionized children's television in 1969 when she began producing Sesame Street for the Public Broadcasting Service. A former NBC publicity director, she now presides over the nonprofit Children's Television Workshop, Inc., which produces 130 segments of Sesame Street and 130 of Electric Company each year. Elegant and outspoken, Mrs. Cooney has served on the President's Commission on Drug Abuse and was recently appointed to the media-monitoring National News Council. In the past year she has formed two C.T.W. subsidiaries to produce shows for commercial TV and ease Sesame Street's reliance on Government and foundation funds.

Richard N. Cooper, 40. On the eve of Henry Kissinger's appointment as National Security Affairs adviser to President Nixon in 1969, he turned to Cooper for a crash course in international economics. A Yale professor, Cooper served as a senior staff economist for President Kennedy's Council of Economic Advisers and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Monetary Affairs under Lyndon Johnson. The author of The Economics of Interdependence, he has a suitably international background: born in Seattle, he grew up in Germany, was educated at Oberlin, the London School of Economics and Harvard. Named Yale's provost in 1972, he helped ease the financially hard-pressed university out of the red this year.

John J. Cowles Jr., 45. "People need to be informed in order to govern their lives well," says the chairman of the Minneapolis Star and Tribune Co., who oversees an "information and ideas" empire that includes four daily newspapers, Harper's magazine, suburban weeklies and television and radio interests. Born in Des Moines, he moved to Minneapolis soon after the senior Cowles bought the Star. After Harvard, he joined the Tribune, inheriting the editorship from his father in 1961. While making the two newspapers independent of each other, Cowles persuaded the Guthrie Theater to establish itself in Minneapolis and raised $2.3 million to support the venture.

Joseph F. Crangle, 42. "I grew up believing that the Democratic Party was the instrument for the common good, to correct social ills," says New York State's Democratic chairman, an issue-oriented politician. At the 1968 Democratic Convention, Crangle presented the only minority plank to be adopted: abolition of the unit rule, which opened the way to democratizing the delegate-selection process. A nonsmoking teetotaler who studied for the priesthood in his youth, Crangle was named chairman of the Erie County Democrats at 32. In 1971 he became state chairman and ever since has been trying to unify his fractious party and to eradicate