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...because the public is becoming aroused, and partly because the manufacturers are afraid that the federal and state governments will devise strict safety standards and force them on the industry. Washington already has safety and performance standards for every major form of transportation-except the automobile. U.S. Senators Abraham Ribicoff, Robert Kennedy, Gaylord Nelson and others, who continued some well-publicized hearings last week (see U.S. BUSINESS), are pressing Congress to establish minimum safety requirements for cars, and prohibit from interstate commerce any vehicles or parts that fail to meet them, beginning with the 1967 models. President Johnson wants that...
...Senator Too. Gillen's investigation hit a high point last month after Nader agreed to testify before a Senate subcommittee headed by Connecticut Democrat Abraham Ribicoff, which is investigating traffic safety. For a week before the hearings, G.M.'s gumshoes followed Nader all around Washington, trailed him into the Senate Office Building-from which they were evicted by guards who suspected them of being exactly what they were...
...turned out, complained Ribicoff, they also started looking into the Senator's own private life, presumably hoping to turn up information about some sort of connection with Nader...
...part of its six-year, $700 million highway safety bill, the Administration requested discretionary authority to establish automobile safety standards-and fully expected Congress to balk. As it turned out, Congressmen complained that the Administration had not gone sufficiently far or fast. Senator Abraham Ribicoff, a stern evangelist of traffic safety when he was Governor of Connecticut, urged that the Administration should be required, not authorized, to set safety standards, adding that in any case they could not be incorporated until the 1970 models. Asked Ribicoff: "Are we going to watch 50 million new cars roll off the assembly lines...
...government, should provide more educational aid to more families, but the funds must go to the poorest students. The Ribicoff amendment was a piece of shotgun legislation, spraying aid indiscriminately without regard to need. The government should spend the $1 billion for education, but it should spend it more sensibly. The defeat of the Ribicoff amendment cannot be interpreted as denying the government's obligation to make the opportunity of college education available to all students...