Word: ralph
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...flight had revived rumors that the small-time criminal was part of a conspiracy that climaxed with the murder on April 4,1968, of the nation's most celebrated civil rights leader. Much of that renewed speculation came from Black Leaders Ralph Abernathy and Jesse Jackson and members of the House Select Committee on Assassinations. Said Louis Stokes, chairman of the committee: "My real concern is whether Ray was lured into this escape and, if so, whether for the purpose of killing him to stop him from talking...
...Ralph Nader and other consumer advocates have fought since the late 1960s for an agency that would operate autonomously within the Government, representing the public interest by monitoring other departments, testifying at their hearings, petitioning them to change injurious regulations and challenging their adverse decisions in the courts (TIME, April 18). Says Presidential Special Assistant for Consumer Affairs Esther Peterson: "We have got to have somebody that speaks for the consumer, as we have people who speak for business." Only Gerald Ford's threatened veto kept the agency from being established...
WIZARDS, the new animated feature by Ralph Bakshi (Fritz, the Cat), falls between a visionary epic and the conventional mayhem of Saturday-morning TV. Neither a kiddie cartoon nor an adult entertainment, the film is a whats it. Set in A.D. 2,000,000, it projects a world left over from a nuclear holocaust...
Steinbrenner leads a syndicate of 19, which purchased a wreckage of a Yankee franchise from CBS in 1973. He eased out Manager Ralph Houk, hired and fired Bill Virdon, purchased perhaps $7.5 million worth of baseball talent and brought in Billy Martin, who had been a nonconforming battler on the conformist Yankees...
...proved an easy target for critics, it is not so much because the proposal is without merit as that its proponents have promised too much. The consumer movement has taken on all of the characteristics of a religious crusade, and the consumer protection agency has become its Holy Grail. Ralph Nader and his followers--who see thalidomide behind every drug counter and carcinogens in every can of deodorant--have promised unrealistic benefits from a proposal that would, in reality, be an imperfect solution to the problem of adequately representing the interest of the consumer in the government proceedings. The unfortunate...