Word: coleman
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Thus did Secretary of Transportation William T. Coleman Jr. explain an odd-sounding ruling last week. He admitted that air bags-which inflate instantly upon impact of a collision, keeping the driver and front-seat riders from being hurled against the dashboard or windshield-might save an estimated 12,000 lives a year if installed on all U.S.-made cars. Nonetheless, he refused to order such universal installation. Instead, Coleman asked the car companies to outfit 500,000 cars with air bags during the next two model years, in what would amount to a mass test...
Failed Fiat. The automen are relieved that they will not have to spend the $600 million that would have been necessary to equip all 1978-model cars with air bags. But they are none too happy about Coleman's request that they put up $48 million of their own money to conduct a demonstration project over the next two years-which they regard as an offer they cannot refuse...
...automen's misgivings paled in comparison to Nader's fury. He shrilly denounced Coleman's caution as "a massive act of irresponsibility that will doom thousands of Americans to needless death and injury on the highway." Nader vowed that he would ask the Secretary of Transportation in the Carter Administration to reverse the ruling...
Other top candidates for appointment are Detroit Mayor Coleman Young, who gave Carter crucial backing in the Michigan primary; Jesse Hill, president of the Atlanta Life Insurance Co.; Herman Russell, an Atlanta contractor; Mayor Richard Hatcher of Gary, Ind.; John Cox, a Delta Airlines consultant who was the only well-known black to support Carter for Georgia Governor in 1970; Texas Congresswoman Barbara Jordan. Many others are hoping for a berth. Quips a black Democratic official in Atlanta: "Half the blacks here already have their bags packed to come to Washington...
...William Coleman Jr., 56, Secretary of Transportation, may go back to practicing law in Philadelphia; he has not been discouraging speculation that he would like to run for Governor of Pennsylvania...