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...Ralph Nader is best known as the man who made Americans afraid of their cars; yet the scope of his crusading zeal extends far beyond defective mufflers and inadequate suspension systems. In a scant 18 months, he has piqued national concern over the side effects of medical X rays, the dangers inherent in leaky natural-gas pipelines, and the threat of damaging radiation from several models of color television sets. Last week Nader was a major force behind what Lyndon Johnson called "another victory for the American consumer...
...President endorsed a long-stalled law ordering states to raise their meat hygiene codes in conformity with strict federal inspection standards. The measure, which had lain dormant in congressional committees despite efforts of its Democratic sponsors, was given the impetus of national publicity by Nader. He pointed out in a series of freelance articles that many meat-processing plants throughout the country, which handle a full 15% of the beef, pork, lamb and poultry consumed in the U.S., escape federal inspection because the meat does not cross state lines...
...legislative scene. As chief caveat caller to Emptor Americanus, he has no constituency but the American consumer, no financial backing beyond what he can generate from lectures and writing (his auto-safety book, Unsafe at Any Speed, sold 450,000 hard-cover and paperback copies, earned him $55,000). Nader's success is largely due to his unerring flair for phrasemaking, backed by diligent research. A self-taught speed reader, he flips through thousands of pages of Government reports and technical journals, then distills his findings into mind-grabbing slogans. One article on meat, for example, was titled "Watch...
...took Nader seriously at first. Indeed, his first crusade against the auto industry might have gone the way of all muckraking had not General Motors inadvertently created nationwide sympathy for him in 1966 when clumsy detectives hired by G.M. tried to dig up dirt on his private life in hopes of discrediting him. Now Nader's vigorous campaigns are aided by a burgeoning force of Congressmen eager to cash in on his crusades. Nader is only too happy to feed them his meticulously accurate intelligence...
Switching Bills. With Mondale racking up mileage from his publicly popular cause-and with headline-grabbing Ralph Nader and labor unions joining the fight for across-the-board federal standards-it was not surprising last week that the Johnson Administration switched allegiance from Montoya to Mondale. Said Consumer Affairs Special Assistant Betty Furness: "The American housewife wants immediate and mandatory meat inspection." Speaking of the Montoya bill, she added: "I believe the housewife is unwilling to wait two years or three years or longer before she can be confident that the meat she serves her family is healthful." Best guess...