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...been glumly observed that a children's book, like cat food, is rarely bought by the actual consumer. Probably not even Ralph Nader could correct this situation. But what it means is that young readers are peculiarly at the mercy of pedagogues, packagers and harried parents, especially in the U.S., where juvenile books are a $150 million-a-year business. This year commercial fashions-some new, some old-are once more depressingly in evidence...
...trying to become the Ralph Nader of radiation," explains Willis Stubbs, an insurance salesman whose four children attend Pomona Elementary, "but people need to be told to get the hell out from the tailings, or that it's all right." Both he and his wife have come to doubt the Surgeon General's guideline. Says Mrs. Stubbs: "They say chances of damage to the children is one in a million. Well, suppose your child is that one in a million? We happen to be parents and we are concerned about it." So are some local businessmen. A bank...
Good Works. The Nader report was prepared over a period of nearly 18 months by a seven-man task force led by James Phelan, 26, a Yale Law School senior who was once interviewed for a Raidership by Edward Finch Cox, now married to Tricia Nixon. Unhappily, the Raiders' work is marred by contradictions and errors. The Du Pont-owned Chambers Works in Deepwater, N.J., which makes a variety of chemical products, does not discharge 100 billion gallons of effluent daily into the Delaware; the figure is 100 million gallons of dilute effluent-still no small amount. The report...
More gravely, the Nader report garbles its account of the bankruptcy of Lammot du Pont Copeland Jr. (TIME, May 3), son of the recent Du Pont board chairman. Inexplicably, also, the report accuses the family-controlled newspapers of downplaying news that National Guard troops were stationed in Wilmington in 1968 at a time of racial disturbance and stayed for nine months. On the contrary, both papers played the story on the front page for weeks, crusaded to get the troops out and even nominated themselves for a Pulitzer Prize for their efforts...
...Delaware, but he argues that "by and large" that influence has been good. He adds: "Many of the problems discussed in the report are problems of the corporate system in general. Perhaps they are exaggerated in our case because Delaware is so small." Wryly, he concurs with the Nader recommendation that the Wilmington newspapers should be sold. Says Du Pont: "I would get more coverage if they were...