Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unpaid battle with the powerful, the lethargic and the secretive amid Washington's vast bureaucracy. Seven young volunteers, law students and lawyers from Ivy League colleges, spent their summer examining how well the Federal Trade Commission does its job of protecting the customer. Their 185-page report, released last week, mixes verbal assassination with hard-to-fault criticism of the inadequately staffed and over-comatose agency...
...were given access to the FTC's personnel and records, found the commission riddled with politics and patronage. Employees tend to be unduly compliant with the wishes of individual Congressmen, who are sometimes much less interested in protecting the consumers than in defending the companies back home. The report blamed the agency's shortcomings on its effusive, arm-waving chairman, Paul Rand Dixon, 55, a onetime aide to the late Democratic Senator Estes Kefauver of Tennessee. It called for the chairman to "resign from the agency that he has so degraded and ossified." Among other things, it accused...
While many of the Nader group's charges were justified, the report's effectiveness was often diminished by overstatement and an intemperate tone. Suggesting an anti-business bias, the report called the dishonesty of companies "far more damaging to contemporary America than all the depredations of street crime." Though anything but objective, the report drew support last week from an unexpected source. The trade journal Advertising Age joined the Nader team in knocking the commission's foot dragging: "No community is well served," it editorialized, "if its fire department habitually reaches the scene after the last spark...
Someone managed to radio a report of the attack to Georgetown. In a ragtag collection of airplanes, about 226 of Guyana's 1,800-man defense force flew in and scattered the rebels. Guyana's ambassador to Venezuela, Novelist E. A. Braithwaite, handed the foreign ministry in Caracas a note written in words more angry than those of the gentle author of To Sir, With Love; the Venezuelans handed it back. As for the heirs of that old South Dakota pioneer, Ben Hart, they fled over the border to Venezuela. And the fine houses that the Harts built...
Just how substantial that boost is and how sustained the University community's new awareness of its relations with the city will be is is hard to tell. Compiling a report is only a first step--a significant step to be sure--toward altering the University's actions in the community. In issuing the report, Wilson and his committee called for Faculty and student debate of the subject. That debate will probably prove more important than the report itself...