American business was introduced last week to a Commerce Secretary unlike any other. Juanita Morris Kreps, 55, administrative vice president of North Carolina's Duke University, is the first woman ever appointed to that 63-year-old Cabinet office. She is also a labor economist, a graduate of a college that catered largely to penurious families in Southern Appalachia and a low-key feminist determined to help women find their place in the sun. She comes to Commerce with a very definite aim: to "encourage business to perform well all tasks that improve human welfare."
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