Word: nadering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Unsafe at Any Speed, Nader...
...More and more, G.M. is using earthy Jim Roche instead of steely Fred Donner as its public voice. It was Roche who went to Washington to apologize for the embarrassing fact that G.M. underlings-unbeknownst to Roche-had hired detectives to probe the private affairs of Safety Crusader Ralph Nader. When G.M. makes delicate pronouncements about auto safety, quality control or production cutbacks, Jim Roche does...
...Nieman Fellows have awarded journalism citations to Ralph Nader, author of Unsafe at Any Speed, and Wilson F. Minor, correspondent for the New Orleans Times-Picayune...
...Nader won a special citation that read in part: "Though not a professional journalist, he has written on auto safety since 1960. His careful and documented investigation is superior reporting in the best journalistic traditions...
Unless I and some other research workers in this field are badly misinformed, the fifty thousand deaths which will occur this year from motor vehicle accidents are a catastrophe which might have been prevented many years ago, had the public been around. The questions which Mr. Nader explores in his book, Unsafe at Any Speed, are vital ones which we as a public have refused to consider until now. Your editorial reflects an apparent failure on your part to acquaint yourself with Nader's published work; should you do so, you will find that it is well researched and documented...