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...White House telephone operator was frantic. "Some guy on TV in Philadelphia," she said, had just told angry consumers to phone complaints directly to the President, and the switchboard was jammed. The guy was Herbert S. Denenberg, 46, lawyer, author (seven books), former college professor, hell-raising former Pennsylvania insurance commissioner (TIME, July 10, 1972), and currently one of the funniest, roughest consumer-affairs reporters ever to read fine print on a label...
...tend to get a greater percentage of fun and games than work here," says Larry Denenberg, who is employed as a computer watcher. "The productive work takes hours and hours a day, then they think it would be fun to have a program that would play a game. Once you start thinking about it you can't stop. So they keep working on it then they have a program that will play a pretty game. That happens at every school. Computers are great toys, toys to be played with...
...Senate. Indeed, reported TIME Correspondent Don Sider, it was more like Robert Redford v. James Cagney. Facing each other from opposite ends of the state were Pittsburgh Mayor Pete Flaherty, a lanky, blue-eyed charmer with an engaging grin and earnest air, and former state Insurance Commissioner Herbert S. Denenberg, a cocky, abrasive professor whose "Shopper's Guides" to buying insurance, legal-aid and medical services have made him a consumers' hero. In the end, Redford-Flaherty...
Both candidates ran modest campaigns with limited funds and the help of numerous relatives. Both racked up impressive mileage as they crisscrossed the state with their handsome wives in search of votes, but their styles and tactics differed. Threatening to bite rather than kiss the first baby he saw, Denenberg, 44, plunged into crowds, bluntly demanding votes and firing flamboyant rhetoric in all directions. Samples: "The oil companies have been fixing prices for so long, they don't know it's illegal. Government is the No. 1 consumer fraud. I was on to Nixon...
Somewhat shy and constantly smiling ("He can outsmile me five to one," said Denenberg), Flaherty ran on his reputation as Pittsburgh's fiercely honest, cost-saving mayor. A former assistant district attorney and city councilman with a law degree from Notre Dame, Flaherty, 48, was first elected in 1969 on the slogan that he was "nobody's boy." He proved it by eliminating unnecessary jobs from city hall, attacking union featherbedding, and bringing in a cadre of new young department heads. He has also abolished or lowered several city taxes. Last fall he was re-elected on both...