Word: ralph
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jefferson would have been an advocate of many of today's causes, Malone believes. He probably would have been sympathetic to Ralph Nader's consumer crusade and certainly would have been an early member of the Sierra Club, a subscriber to the Save the Whales campaign and most other environmental appeals...
...seems hard to believe, but a Ralph Nader lieutenant now bears the chief responsibility for U.S. auto safety as head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. As if that were not enough, the consumerist who once sued the Agriculture Department over its beef grading and food-stamp rules is now Assistant Agriculture Secretary for Food and Consumer Services, overseeing the same grading of meat and food-stamp programs...
...director of Ralph Nader's Health Research Group, Dr. Sydney Wolfe has prodded federal agencies into protecting the public against a number of health hazards, from Red Dye No. 2 to chloroform. Though Wolfe's critics grudgingly acknowledge his effectiveness, they maintain that he is overzealous. Last week Wolfe gave critics some new ammunition...
...play the operetta utterly deadpan--letting the audience laugh at these ridiculous characters--or to reveal that they, too, know the whole thing is a joke. Catherine Weary's sparkling Josephine holds the stage through sheer vocal perfection alone--she could probably handle Puccini with ease. Donald Hovey's Ralph Rackstraw, too, has a full, clean tenor. Now, admittedly there isn't all that much anyonecan make of the milquetoast roles of the love-struck couple; but both Weary and Hovey shuffle between dead seriousness and deadpan tongue-in-cheek...
RUNNING BACK--A bumper crop, led by Cornell tailback Joe Holland, who will undoubtedly win the Asa Bushnell cup for the Ivy player of the year. Harvard's first-rate scooter, Ralph Polillio, joins Holland on the first team at the halfback spot. Brown's Marty Moran weighs in as the first-team fullback, leaving Dartmouth's Jeff Dufresne, Penn's Denis Grosvenor, Yale's Ken Hill and Princeton's Cris Crissy on the second team. (Harvard's P. Wayne Moore makes the all one-game team for his brilliant performance against Columbia for breaking his ankle...