Word: nader
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...what their own Congressmen are up to only through occasional wire service or network stories or through self-serving news releases issued by the Congressmen themselves. In mid-September, a step will be taken to change all that. Under a six-month grant from Public Citizen, one of Ralph Nader's organizations, the newly formed Capitol Hill News Service will set five reporters on the trails of 40 to 50 preselected Congressmen. The newsmen will do investigative and feature coverage on the legislators, as well as stories on their routine activities and votes. At first their files will...
...John J. Gilligan slyly noted that in Nixon's discussion of the confidentiality that exists between lawyer and client and between husband and wife, the President "stopped short of [mentioning] the relationship between psychiatrist and patient-which his top staff went out of their way to violate." Ralph Nader disliked the speech; so did the Rev. Ralph Abernathy, the newly re-elected head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, who, at a mass rally in Indianapolis, heatedly called for the President's arrest...
...Food and Drug Administration banned the use of DES in cattle feed after a Nader task force reported it to be carcinogenic, i.e. cancer-causing. Yet in the Morning After pill, a dose 168,000 times as great as that found in food from DES-fed cows is given to unsuspecting women. Though banned from our food, the FDA has not banned DES from our bodies. The danger, according to Dr. Herbst of Massachusetts General Hospital, is that this massive dose of DES might "stimulate the growth of already existent pre-cancerous cells." According to a fact sheet published...
College students looking for a summer job with status are concentrating this year on lining up positions with ecology groups. Nader's Raiders-like investigative teams, or practically anything to do with film making. But if cash rather than cachet is the main consideration, they could hardly do better than sign on with Nashville's Southwestern Co. to spend their vacation peddling Bibles and reference-shelf books. Last week this longtime seller of books distributed door to door was busy training some of the 8,000 student salesmen and saleswomen who, in the next three months, will become...
grease and black leather jackets, ankle bracelets, fins on cars, proms. And rock 'n' roll. In the cascade of nostalgia currently inundating the country, an entrepreneur named Richard Nader resurrected an assortment of vintage rock acts (Danny and the Juniors, the 5 Satins, Chubby Checker) and packaged them into a free-floating concert tour called the Rock and Roll Revival. This film is a sort of illustrated program of the show, featuring backstage high lights, biographical chatter and large-scale photo portraits of the stars...