Word: nader
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There are other graduates who want to make movies or go into business. And others who are going to work for McGovern or McCloskey or Nader. And others who, as it turns out, are going to do nothing...
...fascinatingly subtle contrast. A tall (6 ft. 1 in.), circumspect liberal Republican seven months younger than his bride, he is a scion of Eastern gentry who trace their bloodlines back to the Revolution. He served as one of the original Nader's Raiders, and his reticent charm, some friends believe, masks an incisive intelligence and healthy ambition. It is an American marriage to be reckoned with...
...improbable person who did receive an invitation at the bridegroom's insistence?and plans to attend?is Eddie's friend Ralph Nader...
...table, and that he has been known to argue with his future in-laws. At the 1968 convention, his choice for the vice-presidential nomination was said to have been New York's Mayor John Lindsay or Oregon's Senator Mark Hatfield. Tricia can easily imagine Ed becoming a Nader-bred advocate lawyer and even perhaps going into politics himself. "You know the saying," she says, "that every lawyer is a frustrated politician...
...there are distressing signs of apathy among many students, a cooler activism is taking hold among those who reason that such problems as pollution and racial discrimination can be solved only by old-fashioned political pressure. Student concerns may be increasingly represented in state legislatures and court actions by Nader-like lobbies. The Minnesota Public Interest Research Group, for example, is financed by student fees at campuses across the state. It will go to work this fall with a full-time professional staff of ten to 15 lawyers and scientists-plus a budget...