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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 for improvement of small-claims courts.
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Neil F. Hartigan, 36, is a product of Chicago Mayor Richard Daley's Democratic machine, but he has remained untarnished by its recent scandals. Now Lieutenant Governor of Illinois, the Loyola Law School graduate spent five years as a Daley aide, establishing a political base of his own from which he could some day run for mayor of Chicago or Governor of the state. Hartigan has sought to broaden his base by speaking out for the elderly, mental health and a new airport to serve St. Louis and southern Illinois.
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Richard Hatcher, 40, scratched his way through college and law school and, since beating his party's machine in 1967, has been the Democratic mayor of racially divided Gary, Ind. An important link between black politicians in North and South, Hatcher has run into problems in the grimy steel city: white animosity, an exodus of white businessmen and a lack of capital to develop downtown areas. But Hatcher—who easily won a second term and will probably run for a third —has involved ordinary citizens in Gary's administration, waged war against corruption in city hall and the police department and obtained federal funds to erect the first public housing to be built in more than a decade.
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Rita E. Hauser, 39. "Some day there will be a woman on the Supreme Court," predicts Hauser, who was among those mentioned for a seat when Justice John Marshall Harlan retired in 1971. A moderate Republican who has campaigned for both Richard Nixon and Nelson Rockefeller, she was U.S. representative on the Human Rights Commission of the United Nations, 1969-1972. A founder of the soon-to-open First Women's Bank & Trust Co. of New York, she now heads the international practice of a Wall Street law firm. Brooklyn-bred Hauser holds degrees from four universities; she earned a Ph.D. from the University of Strasbourg at 21 and a New York University law degree at 24.
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Raymond A. Hay, 45. A persuasive salesman, the head of U.S. operations for Xerox Corp. talks with everyone from switchboard operators to branch executives while making his cross-country rounds. Among the divisions Hay oversees from headquarters in Stamford, Conn., are Xerox's Information Systems Group, Information Technology Group and Business Development Group. Born in New