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ADVENTURE as a category looks upward. Two shows celebrate the wild blue yonder. Spencer's Pilots (CBS) records the adventures of two young pilots who work for an independent aviation company; against ABC's Donny and Marie and NBC's Sanford and Son, they may never get it off the ground. Baa Baa Black Sheep (NBC) expands the feats of scrappy Pappy Boyington, the celebrated World War II Marine Corps fighter pilot, in Dirty Dozen fashion...
More substantively, Sanford contends that Nader is as secretive about the finances of his consumer groups as are the corporations he repeatedly attacks. Nader does, for example, refuse to divulge the names of all contributors to his causes, contending he does not want them harassed. Sanford further claims, convincingly, that despite Nader's poor-mouthing, his major lobbying organization, Public Citizen Inc., had a net worth of $1.3 million as of 1974, the date of its most recent public report...
Although it is often catty and petty, Sanford's book nevertheless does seem to have a point about one of Nader's fund-raising tactics: the Public Interest Research Groups raise money on many college campuses through an automatic fee that all students must pay, applying for a refund if they do not wish to be assessed. Yet Nader has sharply assailed the practice of book clubs that send volumes monthly to members unless they ask the clubs in writing...
...Sanford does concede that Nader has made an invaluable contribution to U.S. society. But, he quickly adds, "he's become arrogant and self-important. You cannot be the sixth, or whatever, most admired man in the world, receiving the mail that he does and the press attention he gets, without being changed...
Nader dismisses the Sanford book as "a consumer fraud." Connecticut's Democratic Senator Abe Ribicoff, whose subcommittee hearings on auto safety first thrust Nader into prominence, offers a more eloquent rebuttal. "I read that people are kicking Ralph Nader around," Ribicoff told TIME. "He's still a man of great influence. He's got integrity. He takes on causes that very few people want to take on. They are all controversial. He's right some of the time. He's wrong some. But he's willing to take them...