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Saul P. Steinberg, 34, was barely out of the Wharton School of Business when he decided that he could make money by borrowing funds, buying computers and leasing them to users. Borrowing $100,000 from his family, he launched Leasco Data Processing Equipment Corp. in 1961, within six years held stock and warrants worth more than $10 million. Though the stock has declined, Steinberg's company is in good shape. His bid to buy New York City's Chemical Bank was rebuffed in 1969, but Steinberg has branched into insurance, management consulting, and ship, barge and aircraft leasing, now runs his companies from Manhattan as chairman of the Reliance Group Inc. An active fund raiser for charities, he contributed $250,000 to Richard Nixon's 1972 campaign.
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Gloria Steinem, 38. "The main accomplishment is a change of consciousness and the way of looking at the world, the raising up of the grid on sex and race. But the change in view has yet to take economic and structural forms." During three years of tireless lecturing about the women's movement, Steinem has done much to change viewpoints, and now she is retiring from the talk circuit to concentrate on writing. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Smith, she serves on the advisory board of the National Organization for Women, helped convene the National Women's Political Caucus in 1971 and is a co-founder and editor of the highly successful Ms. magazine (circ. 378,000).
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Herbert J. Stern, 37, used his prodigious memory and zeal for work to enforce high morality in positions of public trust. As U.S. Attorney for New Jersey, he waged a war on corruption that yielded indictments of 70 public officials—including a mayor, secretaries of state, an ex-speaker of the New Jersey assembly, a police chief, assorted judges, postmasters, highway superintendents, even a U.S. Congressman. A graduate of Hobart and the University of Chicago Law School, Stern headed the investigation of the Malcolm X murder case as assistant district attorney in New York City. It led to three convictions. In 1973, after only twelve years in law instead of the usual minimum of 15, he was appointed by President Nixon to the federal bench in Newark.
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Adlai E. Stevenson III, 43, has little of his late father's eloquence, but has proved every bit as successful a vote getter in Illinois. In his first campaign in 1964, he outdrew all 235 other candidates for the state legislature, two years later led the Democratic ticket again when he ran for state treasurer. Since his election to the Senate in 1970 to complete Everett Dirksen's term, Stevenson has been one of the Nixon Administration's sharpest critics. Scholarly and hardworking, he called for funds to develop alternative energy sources as far back as 1972, recently directed the unsuccessful Senate effort to retain stand-by controls over wages and prices and has opposed the concept of federal revenue sharing on the grounds that some of the local governments receiving money are in better financial condition than Washington. He does not face strong opposition for reelection this year.
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Howard Swearer, 42. The president of Minnesota's Carleton College has a knack for making things work. As chairman of the student-faculty-administration College