Word: ralph
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...FOUR YEARS since his Unsafe at Any Speed drove Corvair off the market and set General Motors detectives on his tail. Ralph Nader has gone a long way towards establishing himself as the Renaissance Man of American crusaders. After cutting his muckraking teeth on the automobile industry. Nader has moved on to hit a staggering range of targets...
Nader's working habits are admittedly unorthodox, but most of the bizarre components of the Ralph Nader Lone Crusader myth are obviously the offspring of bureaucratic imaginations gone beserk. One element that is genuine, however, is Nader's reputation for putting on a good show. His victims have learned that Nader has an astounding knack of attracting publicity and using the press. He consistently loads his public statements to contain the right mixture of documentation and verbal flamboyance (in the McGovern testimony, for instance, hot dogs with a high fat content became "fatfurters-American's deadliest missiles"). In his increasingly...
...uncommitted upon whom the election may hang was hurriedly schooling himself in Republican senatorial politics and protocol. He is Ralph Smith, 53, a self-styled flexible conservative who was speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives until last week, when Governor Richard Ogilvie appointed him to fill the late Everett Dirksen's Senate post until next year's election...
...commission report, as its authors caustically point out, repeats some criticisms that were voiced officially as early as 1924, restated by the Hoover Commission in 1949 and updated in scathing language last spring by "Nader's Raiders," the team of young lawyers and students assembled by Consumer Crusader Ralph Nader. The latest report may well have more effect than earlier ones, because it comes at a crucial time. President Nixon asked for it, obviously to help guide him in appointing an FTC chairman to succeed Paul Rand Dixon, a Democrat who has held the job since 1961. Dixon...
Harvard's progress has been encouraging, and it has a solid core of veterans returning from the squad that defeated the Crusaders twice last fall on its way to a 5-3 record. But the traditional informality of rugby practices may work against the Crimson, since co-captains Ralph Harder and Phil Ordway have been unable to form a stable fifteen for any considerable length of time...