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...biggest battle over Harvard's investment policy concerned the attempt of a group of Washington. D.C. lawyers led by Ralph Nader to make the General Motors Corporation more responsive to the needs of the consumer and the public. The group, which called itself "Campaign to Make General Motors Responsible" proposed three major changes in the operation of the giant automobile company...
...months before it came time for Harvard to make its decision on GM, the corporation asked for and received advice from all groups associated with the University. By May I, three fourths of their correspondence supported the Nader group. The statements of support included a Faculty resolution, an alumni poll, a student petition with more than 1500 names, a law brief from the Harvard Environmental Law Society, and letters from Mayor White and Senator Edward M. Kennedy...
...Nader's Raider called the CRIMSON from Washington last summer and announced that they had discovered scandals in the Agriculture Department bigger than Billy Sol Estes. He said that halt of the Ag Dept, was so corrupt that they d have to be fired...
Critics responded only with more skepticism. Consumer Crusader Ralph Nader, G.M.'s No. 1 foe, dismissed the committee as "a fraud." The organizers of Campaign G.M., a group that has been pressing the company to exercise greater social responsibility, complained that the committee "has no blacks, no women, no consumer representatives or environmentalists." The apparent moral: Only tangible and prompt action will quiet G.M.'s persistent detractors...
...else but Consumer Reports, a monthly magazine that has been cataloguing caveats for shoppers since before Nader was old enough to lose control of a defective kiddie car. Not that there is any rivalry between Nader and CR. He is now, in fact, a director of the magazine's parent corporation, the nonprofit Consumers Union of U.S., Inc. The publicity accorded Nader's personal crusades, plus the general rise in consumerism, has no doubt contributed to CR's surging popularity. Founded along with Consumers Union in 1936, CR took 30 years to reach a circulation...