Word: ralph
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Consumer Advocate Ralph Nader has long been assailed by conservative politicians and officers of corporations that have been gored by his crusading zeal. At the Republican National Convention in Kansas City, Vice President Nelson Rockefeller made him the target of one of history's most labored puns (he claimed that Candidate Jimmy Carter's appearance at a Nader gathering meant that Carter was trying "to pass himself off as one of the Nader-day saints"). Now the lean, intense folk hero is coming under fire from a few of his former admirers-liberals who applaud his service...
...compleat anti-Nader catalogue has been assembled by David Sanford, former managing editor of the liberal New Republic who once collaborated with Nader on a book (Hot War on the Consumer). In a slim 135-page critique, Me & Ralph, Sanford seems obsessively concerned about his personal problems in editing the prickly Nader's syndicated newspaper column and about Nader's deteriorating relations with the New Republic. Sanford and Nader fell out over these not uncommon editor-author frictions in 1973. Sanford thereupon completed an anti-Nader article for Esquire, but was dissuaded from publishing it by then...
...does it in Ohio. In Illinois, Stevenson -coupled with Adlai, of course-is a good bet; and Brown breeds governors in California. But in Texas, the game of political names calls for a Yarborough, a cognomen that has meant liberal votes in the Lone Star State for a generation. Ralph Yarborough, 73, was in the Senate from 1957 to 1971. Another Yarborough, Donald H., 50, a Houston lawyer and no relation, ran unsuccessfully three times for Governor and almost beat John Connally...
Wooing Nader. Carter's road show was boffo with Consumer Advocate Ralph Nader, who proclaimed Carter "a breath of fresh air." During a visit with Carter in Plains, Ga., the generally aloof Nader even allowed himself to be roped into umpiring a Softball game-the only one Pitcher Carter has lost in eight outings. (Joking about Nader's performance as an umpire, Carter later quipped: "Both sides said he was lousy-and I can't disagree with that.") Two days after the Plains visit, Nader introduced Carter at a Public Citizen forum in Washington, at which...
There were no serious casualties one day in mid-1954, so 34-year-old Captain David Ralph Millard Jr., assigned to a 1st Marine Division medical unit in South Korea, had time at day's end to ponder one aspect of his chosen specialty: plastic surgery. Among the Korean youngsters around the base were many with cleft lips. Dr. Millard set a series of photographs of them on an easel, and while studying them he dozed off. He awoke with a start, looked at them from a new direction, and then the inspiration came: what he (and generations...