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Dick Lamm, 34, began his political career in 1966 by winning an at-large seat in the Colorado state legislature. A year later he introduced one of the first laws in the nation to legalize abortion where fetal deformity or psychological hazard is likely to occur. Though the bill passed, he later came to believe it was too moderate and persuaded the U.S. Supreme Court to declare it unconstitutional. Lamm led the successful fight against holding the 1976 Winter Olympics in Colorado. Now he is the man to beat for Colorado's 1974 Democratic gubernatorial nomination.
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Moon Landrieu, 43, mayor of New Orleans since 1970, governs with the help of a coalition of blacks, white liberals and blue-collar workers. A keenly instinctual politician, Landrieu was elected to the Louisiana legislature at 29 and won notoriety by standing almost alone against a bundle of bills that sought to prevent compliance with federal desegregation orders. As chairman of the legislative action committee of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, he helped to negotiate federal revenue-sharing money for cities.
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John Lewis, 34, dreamed of becoming a Baptist minister as he grew up in Alabama's Pike County, but he changed direction when the Supreme Court declared segregation unconstitutional. As a civil rights worker, this apostle of nonviolence was frequently arrested and beaten. He headed the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee from 1963 until 1966, then added a philosophy degree to one in theology. In 1970 Lewis became head of the Atlanta-based Voter Education Project, which seeks to register black voters. What is happening now is "a revolution," Lewis claims, pointing to the South's more than 3.5 million black voters.
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Richard G. Lugar, 42, won election in 1967 as the first Republican mayor of Indianapolis in nearly 20 years. A former Rhodes scholar, Lugar merged the city and county governments, attracted heavy transfusions of federal funds into the Hoosier capital, and won re-election in 1971 by a 3 to 2 majority. He has long been known as "President Nixon's favorite mayor," but his star has been dimmed by Watergate and a police scandal. Lugar, who is campaigning for Democrat Birch Bayh's Senate seat, has begun to divorce himself from the President, criticizing Nixon for "sorry conduct that is deeply disappointing."
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Paul Macavoy, 40, professor of economics at M.I.T., is probably the nation's foremost expert on Government regulation of private industry. A Phi Beta Kappa from Maine's Bates College with degrees in economics from Yale, Macavoy argues that regulation is inefficient and retards production. He favors instead a gradual end to regulations over the price and quality of service, feeling that these should be the province of private industry. While this position disturbs some fellow Democrats who generally favor regulation, his service