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...Coffee hour with Joel Porte, professor of English. A caveat--along with the free coffee may be an unprecedented amount of brown-nosing. Porte is an expert on Emerson and Thoreau so expect the ubiquitous ego-deflating frosh to be in attendance, mouthing quotes from The American Scholar or Civil Disobedience...
...Caveat Cavett...
Elizabeth Hanford, 37. The days of total caveat emptor are past if Hanford, one of five members of the Federal Trade Commission and an experienced consumer advocate, has anything to say about it. A Phi Beta Kappa from Duke University, she took a law degree at Harvard in 1965. She was a legislative aide to Lyndon Johnson's consumer adviser Betty Furness, became deputy director of Richard Nixon's Office of Consumer Affairs under Virginia Knauer. Her biggest interest is the promotion of consumer education. Immediate goals: tighter regulations on credit bureaus and federal aid to states...
...admirer of Orwellian Big Brothers. A British subject who has taught in the U.S. since 1951, he favors Barry Goldwater among politicians and has a low opinion of Government's ability to regulate anything properly. Ideally, he is against any public intervention in private enterprise. But that caveat is irrelevant to his thesis...
...Another caveat that could be too easily forgotten: the Soviets have proved to be impressively shrewd traders, eager and able to squeeze the last kopeck out of any transaction with capitalists. That kind of canny negotiating should give pause to the hundreds of U.S. executives who are rushing to do business with Moscow, especially those who want to exploit Siberian natural gas. In that deal, unlike the grain sales, the Soviets will be the sellers in a sellers' market...