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...Ralph Nader's "victory" [June 21] is not a victory for the rest of the flying public, who will eventually pay the $50,061 because the consumer always eventually pays for everything. The ruling does not go to the root of the problem. Airlines overbook because of no-shows, and no-shows occur because the practice is not penalized...
...have always applauded Mr. Nader as the consumer's advocate, but having spent several years sweating away as a travel agent, I have no sympathy for his being bumped...
...couldn't he have scheduled his rallies farther apart so as to avoid getting to the airport so late? No one has any business (barring emergencies) arriving so soon before takeoff. Not even Mr. Nader...
Businessmen charge he is too zealous. Ralph Nader calls him "a public servant who takes his public trust seriously." His own associates merely marvel that one man can do so much; a colleague says he routinely puts in 17-hour days, "going 90 m.p.h. all the way." Stanley Sporkin, 44, sees his task more simply: to throw a spotlight on wrongdoers. He heads the enforcement division of the Securities and Exchange Commission, which brings charges against companies for violations of securities laws and thus polices 9,000 public companies, 3,500 brokerage houses, 3,700 investment advisers...
THOMAS PAINE, 28, a landscape architect, and his brother CHARLES PAINE, 24, an engineer, are descendants of Robert Treat Paine of Massachusetts. Thomas believes if their ancestor were alive today, he would "be a consumer advocate, something like Ralph Nader. He would work outside the political parties to clean up politics because he would sense a feeling of hopelessness within our political life." Not so, says Charles: "I think Robert Treat Paine would see our democracy as still pretty vital." Thomas agrees, noting that "democracy is working, but there is a tremendous lack of people in public life whom...