Word: knauer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Knauer--Princeton...
Engaged. Robert J. Dole, 52, witty Republican Senator from Kansas and onetime chairman of the Republican National Committee; and Mary Elizabeth Hanford, 38, sole woman member of the Federal Trade Commission. Hanford's striking good looks and Harvard law degree once prompted White House Consumer Affairs Adviser Virginia Knauer to describe her as an example of deceptive packaging. Dole, who narrowly won re-election in 1974, convinced voters that he had been unfairly besmirched by Watergate: he appeared in TV ads with mud on his face...
...anything to say about it. A Phi Beta Kappa from Duke University, she took a law degree at Harvard in 1965. She was a legislative aide to Lyndon Johnson's consumer adviser Betty Furness, became deputy director of Richard Nixon's Office of Consumer Affairs under Virginia Knauer. Her biggest interest is the promotion of consumer education. Immediate goals: tighter regulations on credit bureaus and federal aid to states for improvement of small-claims courts...
...offers a second year's coverage for $150. Both GM and Ford emulate that plan on their '73 cars, though neither offers protection that goes so far as AMC's. The AMC warranty won the praise of industry watchers as divergent as Presidential Consumer Adviser Virginia Knauer and Mac Gordon, outspoken editor of the dealer newsletter Motor News Analysis. Since AMC pays a much bigger part of new-car repair bills than before, the plan also helped solve the problem of dealer desertions, which at one point were running at a rate of several dozen per year...
...every government excursion into consumerism has been a rousing success. Most disappointing has been the Nixon Administration's Office of Consumer Affairs, headed by Virginia Knauer, a pleasant Philadelphia matron who has been a muted consumer champion. On the whole, though, the new consumer centurions are active and able. Some notable examples...