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...Senator Ribicoff: I would say that the city of Los Angeles right now, from your testimony, does not stand for a damn thing...
...furor, and other automakers will probably follow suit. Ford's is hardly a crash program-the new noses will go on various models when they are due for major restyling, and the changeover will not be complete until the 1971 models come out. But even Connecticut Senator Abraham Ribicoff, the auto industry's toughest critic in Congress, saw the move as a sign of Detroit's growing recognition that "safety entails more than add-on features...
Items on the list received by Ribicoff...
With the receipt of the recall list, the Ribicoff subcommittee had all but finished its job. But the commotion about auto safety continued, with some of the criticism being aimed at targets well beyond Detroit. Author Ralph (Unsafe at Any Speed) Nader moved from the Capitol's Senate wing to the House side, testified before the House Commerce Committee and took a few shots at foreign cars. The Rolls-Royce, Critic Nader said, is "overpriced and overrated." Among other things, he complained, its door latches have an unpleasant habit of popping open on impact at as little...
...attacks range from Ralph Nader's flamboyant denunciation of Rolls Royce door latches to Senator Ribicoff's sober investigation into the recall of 8.7 million automobiles since 1960. Under pressure, the industry has made concessions. Most of the manufacturers have assured a Congressional Committee that they will spare no effort in setting their own safety standards...