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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...
...launch his own bid for the statehouse before the decade is out. Hard-driving and talented, Hodges is chairman of the North Carolina National Bank, which he has helped propel from 65th to 25th largest in the U.S. (assets: $2.7 billion) in the last 14 years. A Phi Beta Kappa from the University of North Carolina and a Harvard Business School graduate, Hodges has never held a public elective office, but he has been active in such civic affairs as the state's manpower development corporation, which trains school dropouts for jobs, and in county Democratic politics...
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
...country would be shut down," says Colorado's freshman Representative. A Democrat, she is the first woman to be sent to Congress from her state. A former law instructor and attorney for the National Labor Relations Board Schroeder is a Portland, Ore., native, graduated Phi Beta Kappa in three years from the University of Minnesota and earned a Harvard doctorate. In her re-election campaign she is emphasizing the need for congressional reform, improved mass transit and better child-care facilities...
...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...