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According to a Ralph Nader task force report, community centers across the U.S. have failed to provide care to those least able to find help: drug addicts, alcoholics, the young, the aged and "the poor in general." Thousands of people are being dumped into nursing or foster homes where conditions are often deplorable. Since New York State started emptying its mental institutions of thousands of inmates six years ago, many of them "have been jammed into tiny rooms, basements, and garages and fed a semi-starvation diet of rice and chicken necks," an investigation by the Long Island newspaper Newsday...
...this dirty tricks' point in time, distinguish the incorruptible and always operative Ralph Nader as TIME'S Man of the Year? Would it not be a priceless gift from TIME to begin the new year with an image of decency before...
...works of Ralph Nader and John Gardner would be chanted aloud at Evensong in the Savanarola Chapel of Memorial Church...
Succumbing to the Ten Best syndrome, Feminist Gloria Steinem totted up her list of liberated men for Today's Health magazine. Her choices: the late Senator Robert Kennedy (he listened to women), Economist John Kenneth Galbraith (he changed his mind about women), Crusader Ralph Nader (he is interested in issues regardless of their progenitors' gender), Congresswoman Bella's husband Martin Abzug (he is supportive), Athlete Rafer Johnson (he is gentle). There were also the farm workers' Cesar Chavez (for his belief in nonviolence), Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme (he said if there is hope for peace...
...Atomic Energy Commission, long a prime target of criticism by environmentalists, is changing. Traditionally secretive, the commission recently surprised its detractors by offering Antinuclear Crusader Ralph Nader access to all its reports on peaceful uses of the atom. New AEC policies have also dismayed the $20-billion-a-year nuclear power industry. The commission has ordered Consolidated Edison Co. to protect fish in the Hudson River by building a costly water-cooling system at a nuclear power plant near Peekskill, N. Y. In New Jersey, the AEC has banned construction of a long-planned nuclear plant because it would have...