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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
...Attorney Martin Weisbrod in his battle to continue working says, some people are not built for retirement [June 3]. My father retired at the age of 61, returned to college, and in the space of nine years received a B.A. (Phi Beta Kappa), an M.A., an M.M. and a Ph.D. in musicology...
Eighty-two Harvard seniors were elected to the College's chapter of Phi Beta Kappa this week. Those elected were: Mark H. Abensohn of Winthrop House; Steven A. Adelman of Dunster House; Stephen D. Anderson of Leverett House; Frederick Bartenstein III of Dudley House; James G. Basker of Eliot House; Mitchell C. Begelman of Currier House; Jonathan I. Blackman of Kirkland House; and Peter L. Borowitz of Quincy House...