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...search began after two Chevrolets were sent to Consumers Union (of which Safety Crusader Ralph Nader is a director) for road testing. In both cars, the accelerator tended to stick, and this fact was duly reported to G.M. A similar complaint came from an ordinary Chevy owner...
Public Reports. Detroit has quietly recalled cars for many years. But, as a result of a Senate investigation sparked by Ralph Nader's lonely safety campaign, such recalls have been mandatory since Sept. 9, 1966, and nearly all of them have made headlines. Between that day and Sept. 23, 1968, U.S. automakers conducted 288 recalls involving 5,914,592 cars...
Toothless Watchdog. When one of Nader's sleuths sought information that he believed should be public property, FTC Chairman Paul Rand Dixon angrily ejected him from his office. John Schulz, 29, a fledgling lawyer from Yale who is the patriarch of Nader's neophytes, had requested a copy of a monthly FTC memorandum detailing complaints made to the commission. Dixon told him that the document was for FTC use only. After slamming his door on Schulz, Dixon threatened to bar all of Nader's investigators from the building-an unenforceable fiat, since the FTC building is legally...
Student Power. Nader's investigators also claim that the FTC is reluctant to tackle enterprises that hire high-priced lawyers and is chary of publicizing its findings. The commission, Nader testified recently before the Senate Select Committee on Small Business, has made a study of the auto industry that is being kept secret from the taxpayer, while manufacturers have received copies of the findings. The FTC insists that the report is still incomplete...
...member of Nader's task force supported himself in part by serving as part-time superintendent of an apartment building. Two others wangled rent-free rooms as caretakers. William Howard Taft IV, a great-grandson of President Taft, who is in his second year at Harvard Law School, lived on his savings. Edward Cox, 21, took a few days off to visit a girl friend while her father was winning the Republican nomination for President. Cox had met Tricia Nixon, now 22, in Manhattan at a Chapin School dance, and they have been going out together "more or less...