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Each day in the U.S., an average of 130 people die in auto accidents-the equivalent of a major air crash every 48 hours. Last week the Government took its boldest step yet in trying to reduce the carnage. Secretary of Transportation Brock Adams ordered automakers to begin installing air bags or other "passive restraint" safety devices on big cars by the 1982 model-year and on all cars by 1984. Said Adams: "Too many people have needlessly been injured or killed in crashes where passive restraints could have saved them. I cannot in good conscience be a party...
...boldest person in the world. In fact, I'm fairly retiring," says Lady Bird Johnson. Yet in 1964, campaigning for Lyndon, the First Lady once made 47 speeches in four days on a whistle-stop tour of the South. Back on the hustings in Virginia, Lady Bird, 64, is again gamely speaking at luncheons and asking audiences to ante up contributions at fund raisers. Her message: "I don't presume to tell Virginians about Virginia politics, but I do know Chuck Robb." Robb, 37, her lawyer son-in-law, is after the Democratic nomination for Lieutenant Governor...
...Moynihan report was one of the boldest documents on the American race problem-and one of the most divisive. In it Assistant Secretary of Labor Daniel P. Moynihan, now Senator-elect from New York, argued that economic aid alone could not bring equality for blacks in America. His reason: the black family, marked by female-headed households, high illegitimacy and absent fathers, had been destroyed by slavery and left trapped in "a tangle of pathology" that impeded real progress for black Americans...
...indeed received legal campaign contributions from the unions, and Ruff last week cleared him of any wrongdoing regarding these funds. Thus the net effect of the whole episode may be to emphasize a fact long familiar in Washington: the little maritime unions are some of the biggest and boldest political spenders around. "No one is busier on Capitol Hill," says a congressional staffer who handles merchant marine matters. "The maritime guys are everywhere, passing out bucks like there is no tomorrow...
Hearings Begin. This week the boldest move yet to eliminate some major sources of competition for AT&T and the independents will surface in Congress. Exploratory House hearings will begin on a bill that would effectively abolish newer forms of communications competition. Officially, the bill is called the Consumer Communications Reform Act. But because it seems so heavily weighted in favor of the telephone establishment, critics refer to it as the "Bell Bill" or, worse, the "Monopoly Protection...