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...describes as "a bit of show biz" and big-name speakers who get fees as high as $3,000. They discourse on trends and ideas in and out of the market that Kaplan thinks will interest investors. At last week's three-day affair, Consumer Crusader Ralph Nader urged institutional investors to press corporate managements to do more about safety and pollution control. Mutual Fund Millionaire Bernard Cornfeld warned that the Viet Nam War and U.S. social turmoil were making American investments less attractive to Europeans, and Newscaster David Brinkley spoke about the inefficiency of Government bureaucracy...
...idea may be catching, and other airlines are looking into it. The Federal Aviation Administration, under pressure from Consumer Advocates Ralph Nader and John Banzhaf III, is considering a ruling that would require the lines to separate smokers and nonsmokers. Not only does cigarette smoke befoul cabin air, which is pressurized at the equivalent of 2,500 ft.-3,500 ft. and is thinner than air at ground level, but tobacco tars have been known to gum up sensitive gyros on aircraft instrument panels...
...last summer when he mounted the first insurgency since 1926. Unrest had been simmering among the rank and file, who complained that union headquarters in Washington had ignored their demands for stricter health and safety procedures. Articulating these complaints, Yablonski attracted, among others, the support of Walter Reuther, Ralph Nader and John D. Rockefeller...
...Ralph Nader, Rep. Allard K. Lowenstoin (D.N.Y.), and William Lear, designer of the Lear jet and a steam- engine car faster than commercialized gasoline- powered cars, have not yet replied to their invitations...
More recently, 6-ft. 5½-in. Bill Doerner, after writing the Dec. 12 cover story on Ralph Nader, said that Nader should do something about the dearth of clothes for the tall. Within days, Doerner was besieged by manufacturers eager to go to any lengths...