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...rather than sustains; water poisons rather than refreshes; machinery and appliances invented for service and comfort fail to function and sometimes even maim and kill. What has anyone done about it? Until fairly recently, not a great deal. This week TIME'S cover tells the story of Ralph Nader, one man who felt that something had to be done-and set out to do it himself. Nader has spearheaded many of the gains the U.S. consumer has recently made in government, business and industry, science and medicine -wherever it is vital to attack the perils that have been masquerading...
...cover story was written by William Doerner, edited by Marshall Loeb and researched by Claire Barnett, all of whom have firm ideas about what Nader should level his sights on next. For Doerner, who stands 6 ft. 5½ in., the big issue is "the enormous conspiracy against tall people. I can't ride in the back seat of any car, I can't find clothes to fit, and shaving mirrors always seem to be fixed at the level of my belt. It's a plot to keep us unclad and bedraggled." For the life...
MIDWAY through lunch at a fashionable Washington restaurant not long ago, a young man named Ralph Nader stopped suddenly and gazed down in disgust at his chef's salad. There, nestled among the lettuce leaves, lay a dead fly. Nader spun in his chair and jabbed both arms into the air to summon a waiter. Pointing accusingly at the intruder on his plate, he ordered: "Take it away!" The waiter apologized and rushed to produce a fresh salad, but Nader's anger only rose. While his luncheon companions watched the turmoil that had erupted around him, Nader launched into...
...background. But startlingly, Tricia, who once seemed shy and reticent, has emerged as a luminous blonde who turns up playing hostess at a White House Halloween party or holding hands at Manhattan's "21" with Eddie Cox, a young Eastern liberal lawyer who used to work for Ralph Nader's Raiders...
Michael Hares, a third year law student, Andrea R. Hitchhikes, a second year law student. and Green wrote the questionnaire this summer when they were investigating prominent Washington law firms under the direction of Ralph Nader...