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...FOUR YEARS since his Unsafe at Any Speed drove Corvair off the market and set General Motors detectives on his tail. Ralph Nader has gone a long way towards establishing himself as the Renaissance Man of American crusaders. After cutting his muckraking teeth on the automobile industry. Nader has moved on to hit a staggering range of targets...
Consider this summer as an example. After a weak start with an expose of overly-loud music at rock'n'-roll halls-a topic that never caught the serious public interest he hoped for-Nader coverd a series of weightier topies. In July, he told George McGovern's Special Senate Committee on Nutrition about the built-in dangers of modern American food, he was later invited to serve on a White House panel on the subject. Shortly afterward there was an exhaustive report on the threat of "brown lung" for workers in textile mills-a report that surprised many public...
Late in the summer. Nader held a news conference to air his charges of government secrecy, and he testified before another Congressional committee that was digesting various plans for a Consumer's Agency in the federal government. All the while, Nader kept the pressure on a number of his old enemies: the titans of Detroit who-Nader said-were still dragging their feet on auto safety: the Agriculture Department's meat inspectors, who didn't seem to be trying hard enough to keep the rotten carcasses out of the stores: the United Mine Workers leadership, which cared more about keeping...
Along the way on his various projects. Nader has cultivated a sizable lore to surround his public image. One Washington burcaucrat told me very solemnly this summer that Nader never sleeps, rarely eats, and only takes time off from his work to visit his mother in Connecticut. Another man pointed out the spot on F Street in downtown Washington where Nader supposedly disappeared one sunny day, only to emerge two hours later on a speaker's podium in California...
Seeking a New Chief. That is scarcely a new thought. The A.B.A. commission report, as its authors caustically point out, repeats some criticisms that were voiced officially as early as 1924, restated by the Hoover Commission in 1949 and updated in scathing language last spring by "Nader's Raiders," the team of young lawyers and students assembled by Consumer Crusader Ralph Nader. The latest report may well have more effect than earlier ones, because it comes at a crucial time. President Nixon asked for it, obviously to help guide him in appointing an FTC chairman to succeed Paul Rand...