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...automen had some imaginative proposals of their own. American Motors President Roy Abernethy suggested that the industry "force-feed" safety to the public by including effective if still unpopular safety items as "delete options"-that is, standard equipment unless the customer specifically asks to have them removed. He also proposed uniform, nationwide traffic laws...
Happily, some U.S. lawyers have never been afraid to defend unpopular people or unpopular causes-even if their efforts cost them dearly in money and community standing. In Birmingham, for example, Lawyer Paul Johnston last week began to pay the price of voluntarily representing FBI Informer Gary Rowe (by indirect request of U.S. Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach) in a lawsuit filed by Ku Klux Klan Lawyer Matt Murphy Jr. "It's not too popular to be involved in such matters around here," said one lawyer. Johnston was voted out of his eminent law firm by his prosperous partners-including...
...demanded a place on the board of directors; though he had about 25% of the stock, management refused and a series of battles followed. Simon succeeded in getting control of the company, changed its name to Hunt Foods. He bought a can-making plant, made himself unpopular with wholesale grocers by discontinuing, just when wartime shortages made it difficult to find new canners, Hunt's unprofitable practice of packing private-label brands. He also tripled advertising to an unheard of 7% of sales in an all-out effort to make Hunt a national brand...
...that sophomores who are prospective club material may get to know members of the clubs and at the same time final club members can look them over. A sheet is kept on each sophomore that a club is punching. Members of the club make comments on each "punchee." Sophomores unpopular with members of a club simply stop receiving invitations to the club's activities; desirable club candidates continue to be invited to club activities. The tension builds during the final days of the punching season. Though the clubs have no official channels to trade information, a kind of grapevine springs...
Labor leaders found solace in the fact that municipal elections do not always reflect national sentiment. Richard Crossman, Minister of Housing, noted that the government had had to do a great many "unpopular things in order to repair a long period of damage" under the Tories. Labor's austerity program had resulted in higher interest rates on loans for housing and cars, and a rise in local taxes. In view of last week's defeat, many thought that Wilson almost certainly would avoid the headlong rush into a general election that many of his supporters were proposing, instead...