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WILLIAM O. DOUGLAS, 75, a Democrat appointed by Franklin Roosevelt in 1939, holds the record for Supreme Court longevity; both he and his pacemaker seem to be going strong. Perhaps the most liberal and libertarian Justice in history as well, ever ready to strike a blow against those who abuse executive or legislative power ("I believe that any time an individual is coerced by his Government, he has an action"). Some law school professors criticize him for shortchanging his large talent and writing sloppy, ill-researched opinions, none of which fazes him in the least. However the court now rules...
Joseph Biden Jr., 31. Two years ago, this self-confident Democrat persuaded Delaware's traditionally Republican voters to send him to the U.S. Senate, where he is now the youngest member. A few weeks after he was elected, his wife and infant daughter were killed in an auto accident. Biden admits to being compulsively ambitious. An active proponent of environmental and consumer-protection legislation, he has criticized the Senate for failing to stand up to the Executive Branch and has called for greater accountability on the part of Government decision makers-"so I will know whom to crucify...
...Sociologists Gunnar and Alva Myrdal. Bok graduated from Stanford and Harvard Law, studied in Paris as a Fulbright scholar, collected a graduate economics degree from George Washington University. A top labor-law specialist, he was named dean of Harvard Law in 1968, president of the university three years later. Democrat Bok helped organize opposition to Harrold Carswell's Supreme Court nomination, was among the academicians who went to Washington to protest the 1970 Cambodia invasion...
Willie L. Brown Jr., 40, chairman of the California assembly's ways and means committee, is one of his state's most powerful lawmakers. Since entering the assembly in 1965, the liberal Democrat from San Francisco has had little trouble winning reelection, in 1972 rolled up 76% of his well-integrated district's vote after spending only $192. Brown, who sponsored more bills that were vetoed by Governor Ronald Reagan than any other legislator (including one to decriminalize homosexuality and another to ban discrimination by real estate agents), co-chaired his state's delegation...
Patrick Buchanan, 35, was the first full-time aide Richard Nixon hired as he began to assemble his presidential campaign team in 1966. A Georgetown graduate and former editorialist for the right-leaning St. Louis Globe-Democrat, Buchanan remains the President's most pugnacious defender. While serving as idea man, speechwriter, press adviser and political consultant to Nixon, he has emerged as one of the nation's leading conservative ideologues. Despite his often acerbic defense of the Administration, he has retained the admiration of those conservatives who are dismayed by his boss...