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Provided that Congress approves and allocates enough money. Nixon's proposals will make some major advances toward what he called "a just marketplace." The main items, many of which Nader has been campaigning for: > Consumers for the first time will be permitted to join together in "class actions" in federal court and share the legal expenses of suing manufacturers and merchants guilty of deception. Convicted manufacturers will have to bear all legal costs and pay damages to all who sue. Nixon's proposal, however, does not go as far as Nader and others have demanded. Class-action suits...
...acerbic response to the message: "It would not have been approved by William McKinley." The consumer's popular hero had reason to be satisfied in a week of other victories. The House passed a mine-safety bill setting limits on coal dust in mines for the first time. A congressional committee began hearings on railroad accidents, which Nader claims are responsible for 1,800 deaths a year. And the Department of Transportation issued a policy statement promising to make public soon the names of auto brands that fail to meet Federal safety standards. Next, Nader plans to petition...
...which is scheduled to get the first of the new jets early next year, is in a particularly tough bind. For the first time, it has carried fewer transatlantic passengers this year than TWA. After reporting that third-quarter earnings had dropped from $25 million to $8 million, Pan Am laid off 750 employees, including 450 of its 3,600 pilots and flight engineers...
Economists in recent years have become the most influential of all scholars, taking their place as fixtures in the chancelleries, banks and board rooms of the world. Last week two longtime leaders in this increasingly glamorous science were finally given the ultimate honor, the first Nobel Prize in Economics, the only new category added to the awards since they were started in 1901. The $72,700 prize was shared by Dr. Ragnar Frisch, 74, of Norway, and Dr. Jan Tinbergen, 66, of The Netherlands. The award was for their joint development in the 1930s of the esoteric but highly influential...
...first directorial assignment, Herbert Ross lights Clark's songs as if she were doing a turn on This Is Tom Jones, and tends to place his camera at jarring angles. He even mounts it on the V-l, making the viewer feel like a patient of Dr. Strangslove. No matter. It is one of the graces of group art that if any one can destroy a project, so any one can save it. Mr. Chips is barely enough because Mr. O'Toole is more than enough...