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...endorsement carried particular weight because the federal agency, which only last week announced that it was urging Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. to recall 15 million of its steel-belted 500 radial tires for safety defects, is headed by Joan Claybrook, an avid consumerist who for four years directed Ralph Nader's Congress Watch group in Washington. Said Claybrook: "Our conclusion is that the Omni/Horizon has very good handling characteristics very similar to many other small cars...
...Joan Claybrook Washington...
Your mention of John Claybrook and comments on his accomplishments in TIME, Jan. 17 is appreciated by his white neighbors. There is no man, white or black, in Crittenden County, across the river from Memphis, more highly thought of than John. What he has done any other Negro sharecropper can do if he has the energy and the ability. Few have either of these. ... In his case, as in most cases, the white neighbors down here are always willing to help a good Negro get ahead...
...years since he was born on an Alabama cotton patch, Negro John Claybrook has by slow degrees made himself one of the most affluent members of his race in the South. He owns a large tenant farm, the bank and general store in its Negro settlement of 300, a fortune estimated at $100,000 and a colored baseball te?m. He lives in Memphis in the height of comfort. Credit for all this worldly success, Negro Claybrook, who never went to school, ascribes to his "mother...
Last week to Negro Claybrook's other distinctions was added that of being selected in Marion, Ark. to serve on a jury with eleven white men in the trial of two Negro youths for raping a white girl. He was the first Negro so honored in Marion since 1888, one of the few in the whole history of Southern jurisprudence. The trial-attended by 800 spectators who were searched for weapons at the courthouse door-lasted one day. When it ended, it took Juror Claybrook and his confreres only seven minutes to find the defendants guilty...