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...church. Some men, for example, decide against leaving on missions, although the present prophet and president of the Mormon church, octogenarian Spencer W. Kimball (Mormons say he is young for his job), declared recently that it is every Mormon man's duty to go on a mission. Dr. Chase N. Peterson '52, vice president for alumni affairs and development and current president of the university branch, never went on a mission. Two active Mormon seniors, Muliufi Hanneman and J. Arthur Jensen, have not gone on missions. (Women in the church are not under similar pressure to go on a mission...
...third congregation, which is technically only a "branch" because its members are generally single, has 11 Harvard undergraduates. Newly seated as president of the "University branch"--a job that mixes the roles of an administrator, leader and father confessor--is Harvard's vice president for alumni affairs, Dr. Chase Nebeker Peterson...
...graduate of Northwestern, where she studied economics, has worked for the Department of Health, Education and Welfare and has done magazine writing. But none of this makes her a consumer specialist. In fact, her best-known specialty is throwing chic dinners at her $250,000 Chevy Chase, Md., home, often attended by such close friends as Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Vice President Nelson Rockefeller (who once lent her husband more than $180,000 to help purchase a small paper in California). Could these two luminaries have helped her get the job? No, says Joan Braden, who insists that...
...firming up of the bond market, where prices have risen and interest yields fallen, making bonds less attractive than stocks to many investors. The other was a one-quarter point cut in the prime bank lending rate to 7% by Cleveland Trust Co., followed a day later by Chase Manhattan. Cheaper credit would spur economic expansion and encourage investors to borrow money to buy shares. But a sustained long-term rally will depend, of course, on the state of the economy...
...film maker and his wife Alma ventured to the snowy slopes of St. Moritz, where he wanted to rest before finishing his latest film, Family Plot. The movie, he said cryptically, is "sort of a comedy-melodrama about a fake woman medium, an out-of-work actor and a chase after a missing heir who is also a kidnaper." Had he bothered even to sample the Swiss snow? "We spend most of our time sitting comfortably in the Palace Hotel, watching it all from behind the window...