Word: karpatkin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rhoda H. Karpatkin, 44. The consumer movement has flowered only during the past decade, but Consumers Union has been advising buyers for 37 years. For 16 of those years Rhoda Karpatkin, a Yale law graduate, served...
...consumer is the victim," pro tests Rhoda Karpatkin. "He - no, she - is not respected in the marketplace." Defending the besieged buyer has been a preoccupation of Mrs. Karpatkin, a 43-year-old Manhattan attorney, since she began representing Consumers Union 16 years ago. Now she will make it her full-time occupation, too, as the new executive director of the nonprofit service bureau. She will oversee a staff of 330, extensive product-testing laboratories in sub urban New York, an auto test center hi Connecticut, a law office in Washington, and Consumer Reports, a fact-filled, if plain-Jane monthly...
...accepting the $52,500 job, Mrs. Karpatkin, the mother of three adolescents, will quit her private law practice. She and her husband, who is addition ally an unpaid general counsel to the American Civil Liberties Union, have been partners since several years after her graduation from Yale Law School. Their clients have included school districts, draft-card burners, divorcees, a few small companies and Model Twiggy...
...product testing or advocacy. Pursuing the latter, it recently has filed lawsuits to compel the Government to improve product safety and reliability standards and to release the justification for price increases filed by major corporations with the Cost of Living Council. Speaking of the testing v. advocacy debate, Mrs. Karpatkin says: "Consumers Union has to do both." The courtroom, in her view, is one more test lab for buyers' rights...