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...Ralph Nader, whose labors will lead to a fundamental re-engineering of our automobiles, thus saving hundreds of thousands of lives...
...instant communication, books are not only being read; in many cases they are more powerful weapons than ever. Rachel Carson's Silent Spring awakened the world to the dangers of the improper uses of insecticides and was a work of high literary quality as well. Ralph Nader's Unsafe at Any..Speed was the spark plug that started major safety reforms in the automobile industry. Particularly among the young, paperbacks are used in a direct, intimate way-passages underlined, pages torn out according to need. That was unheard of a couple of generations ago, when books were still...
...proud presence of Safety Crusader Ralph Nader (Unsafe at Any Speed), who last week sued General Motors and its sleuths for $26 million in damages ("harassment and intimidation") resulting from the G.M.-sponsored investigation of his life last spring...
...reasonable man is just what Detroit needs. Long after Nader's book focused national attention on auto safety,* the industry held out against federal legislation, insisted that it could and would impose new and more adequate safety standards upon itself. Only after finding that they were fighting a losing battle did the automakers come around. They now say that they support the legislation that the President signed last week-as long as the Government is willing to be "reasonable" in the standards it sets...
...Nader's chief target had been G.M.'s Corvair, whose 1960-63 models' rear wheels had a tendency to "tuck under," supposedly causing rolls and skids. Last week in Los Angeles, G.M. for the first time lost a damage suit involving Corvair design; a jury awarded $66,000 in damages to two passengers in a Corvair that in 1960 skidded into a roadside culvert and overturned. Corvair's record in suits of this type is now 1 lost, 3 won, 17 dismissed or settled out of court, and 133 pending...