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Seldom articulate and usually all but invisible, America's poor are the losers in what Connecticut's Democratic Senator Abraham Ribicoff calls "the lotteries of parenthood, skin pigmentation and birthplace." In a society and an age that demand ever higher skills and more sophisticated minds, the poor, simply by standing still, are caught up in a kind of geometric regression. For the most part, they are those whom the welfare state never brushed, a residual minority tucked away in rural backwaters and urban ghettos: the Cumberland's dirt farmer, the Mississippi cotton chopper, the migrant farm worker...
...months, a Senate subcommittee chaired by Connecticut Democrat Abraham Ribicoff has studied the problem of auto safety, and has plainly moved toward legislation that would impose federal safety standards on Detroit. Weeks ago, Ribicoff demanded of the automakers that they produce a list, covering the last six years, of all cars that they have asked dealers to call back to the shop for repair of defective parts...
Over the six-year period, more than 47 million passenger cars were manufactured, and so, as Ribicoff figured it, the recalls affected 18.5% of all U.S. auto production. Many of the recalls were caused by irritating rubs and rattles. Such defects are inevitable. "We now manufacture passenger cars which average about 14,000 parts each," wrote G.M. President James M. Roche in his covering letter to G.M.'s list. "It is hardly surprising under these circumstances that imperfections sometimes crop...
...much that present models won't do in the hands of educated, courteous drivers on roads not cluttered with "booby traps," governed by horse-and-buggy regulations or filled with drivers in worn-out cars who consider driving a right rather than a privilege. The good Senator Ribicoff [March 25] should try a few laps in the Hartford cross-town competition some cold, rainy night-Sebring is safer...
...this understandably led Abe Ribicoff to make the understatement that, "there's too much snooping going on." To Nader the Senator observed: "You can feel pretty proud. They have put you through the mill and they haven't found a damn thing wrong with...