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...some 30 dissatisfied professors have left the Free University but most have stayed. Says Classicist Knauer: "We don't want our sons and daughters to have to ask 'Why didn't you stand up?' That is what we asked our own parents...
...Virginia Knauer, the President's Consumer Affairs Adviser and herself a member of the Cost of Living Council, last month dispatched a letter to subscribers of her office's Consumer Legislative Monthly Report. The publication, heretofore provided free, would cost $5 a year beginning Oct. 1, she said. Benny L. Kass, a Washington lawyer, reported her to the IRS. The case is before the Cost of Living Council, and Mrs. Knauer expects that she will have to postpone the fee until after the freeze...
Pull the Plug. In response to these warnings, President Nixon's adviser on consumer affairs, Mrs. Virginia H. Knauer, urged consumers to unplug refrigerators, freezers and electric stoves during brownouts: "This will prevent voltage irregularities from damaging your appliances." Moreover, the Nixon Administration is now considering a plan to reorganize the Atomic Energy Commission to deal exclusively with all forms of energy and to prevent future power shortages...
RUSSELL SAGE COLLEGE Patricia Roberts Harris, LL.D., former dean of the Howard University Law School and former ambassador to Luxembourg. You have always advocated progressive change which rests on the framework of the rule of law. Virginia Harrington Knauer, L.H.D., Special Assistant to the President for Consumer Affairs...
...Nixon disappointed consumer advocates, however, by proposing that suits be limited to eleven specified offenses, including worthless warranties and false claims for a product. Moreover, consumers would be unable to go to court until the Justice Department had first established fraud through a lawsuit. Even Mrs. Knauer, the Administration's own adviser, wanted much broader measures. "Timid tiptoeing," complains Nader. "Politics turned the message into Swiss cheese...