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Thus, he reports, "... one study predicts that substandard housing will have been eliminated by 1980." But that study is dated 1963, examined housing changes in the 1950s, and is obviously meaningless in the light of what happened to U.S. housing...
...white Americans. The average income for each Indian family living on a reservation?and more than half do?is only $1,500. The average years of schooling is 5.5, well behind that of both the black and the Mexican American. Some officials rate 90% of reservation housing as substandard. Unemployment ranges from a low of 20% on the more affluent reservations to 80% on the poorest. The birth rate of Indians is 2½ times that of whites ?and a majority of Indians are under 20 years old. The average family has to carry water for its daily needs...
...against considerable odds, created a new climate of concern for the consumer among both politicians and businessmen. Nader's influence is greater now than ever before. That is partly because the consumer, who has suffered the steady ravishes of inflation upon his income, is less willing to tolerate substandard, unsafe or misadvertised goods. It is also because Nader's ideas have won acceptance in some surprising places. Last week, for example, Henry Ford II went farther than any other automobile executive ever has in acknowledging the industry's responsibility for polluting the air and asked?indeed, prodded?the Government...
Until the substandard chase and rescue, the gagwriters resort to Edsel/Agnew jokes and mad bolsheviks. The junior ambassador tries to make clumsiness funny, bumping into chairs and stammering in search of laughs. The cause of his trouble, he claims, was having a famous ambassador for a father. Whenever Junior misbehaved, Mom hit him with an issue of TIME with Dad on the cover. Viewers are free to make similar use of this copy on the makers of the movie...
make immediate repairs on substandard properties...