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...offices of consumer affairs, many of them headed by attractive and energetic women with whom housewives identify easily. The national prototype is Mrs. Virginia Knauer, 54, a Philadelphia grandmother who served as Pennsylvania's consumer adviser and last April was chosen by President Nixon to head the federal consumer program. Bess Myerson Grant, the 1945 Miss America who is now New York City's commissioner of consumer affairs, recently sent inspectors out to test restaurant hamburgers. When nearly one-third of the burgers failed to meet the city's all-beef standards, Mrs. Grant complained loudly about "shamburgers," 156 people...
Typical of Nader's battle style was his campaign for more stringent federal meat inspection at packing plants. While speed-reading the small print of a House report on Agriculture Department appropriations, Nader noticed that it urged "further studies" of the U.S. meat-inspection program. Did that mean that there had been earlier studies showing that the U.S. had a meat problem? Indeed it did, as Nader found out when he requested a copy of the little-known study at the Agriculture Department. "Nobody ever asked for this before," said the employee who handed it to him. The study gave...
According to Edward T. Wilcox, director of the program of General Education, the students informed the building personnel of the takeover and said they were free to stay or go as they pleased. No deans were physically removed from the building and there was no damage to Dean May's office...
...Helpers to Enter Apprentice Program...
Under the agreement, an apprenticeship and training program will be set up with automatic promotions every six months leading to the journeyman position. The apprentices will be paid $3.05 per hour, retroactive to December 8, 1969. Helpers are presently paid...