Word: nadering
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...will be celebrated on the appropriate days, as will anything that promotes a "child-free life-style." To that end, Bouton announced the first NON awards: to David and Julie Eisenhower and Congresswoman Shirley and Conrad Chisholm as Child-Free Couples of 1972, and to Ralph Nader and Gloria Steinem as Single Man and Single Woman of the Year. "Wonder what kind of a kid they'd produce," mused Bouton...
...several decades, Hoover was a figure of heroic probity-another generation's pistol-packing version of Ralph Nader. Unmarried to the end, he lived with his mother until her death in 1938. For recreation, he went to the racetrack, usually with his lifelong friend Clyde Tolson, who became Associate Deputy Director of the bureau; Hoover always cautiously restricted himself to the $2 window. In the '30s and '40s, he began to appear in New York nightclubs, such as the Stork Club, with cronies, notably Walter Winchell, but he would have only one drink, or two at most...
...concern is filtering down ranks. A fifth grader at Lincoln School in Euclid, Ohio, ten-year-old Billy HanIon, blew 35? of his allowance on an eight-ounce package of Nestle's Quik. When he got home, he discovered that his mother had purchased two pounds for 79?. Nader-sharp, Billy calculated and concluded: "Oh-oh, I shouldn't have bought that...
This precocious consumerism began after a group of Lincoln School teachers decided to make the curriculum more, well, relevant by starting lessons in comparative shopping. They found that the children caught on quickly. Now Lincoln has a newspaper called the Nader News, which features sulfurous exposés like the tale about the school store, where Mrs. Betty Davis tried to beat Susan Davidson out of a penny on her purchase of a paste brush. (Susan...
...believe that the two-party system leads to the election of the best possible man to the White House. There is, however, at least one man they tend to trust more than those now in high office or running for President. Half the panel has confidence in Ralph Nader and the charges he levels at Government and business in behalf of consumers and environmentalists...