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Advocate, muckraker and crusader, Nader has also been almost solely responsible for the passage of five major federal laws. They are the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1966. the Wholesome Meat Act of 1967, the Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act, the Radiation Control for Health and Safety Act and the Wholesale Poultry Products Act, all of 1968. This week Congress will almost certainly pass the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act, which Nader and a group of insurgent mine workers supported against the wishes of complacent union leadership. The act contains stiff preventive measures against working...
Around 9 a. m., about 60 students raced down Quincy Street, blocking traffic, and went into the Faculty Club through the back door, surprising a sprinkling of Faculty members who were eating breakfast and about 15 employees who had come to work...
Think about the police. A study somewhere once revealed that the average man in this country makes his only contact with police during his lifetime in connection with driving his car. A policeman's function of regulating traffic, overseeing parking, and checking up on registration and inspection of cars is a extraordinary duty really apart from most of what he does as a crime fighter. A policeman can stop you, search you, and easily arrest you if you're driving a car. When they say the "streets belong to the people." it is a dream: the streets belong...
Think about being stuck mostly motionlessly in downtown traffic for half an hour. This is a very terrible experience. Your mind can't wander because your purpose is being constantly minutely served: you inch forward. As a human animal you have no interest in this sort of activity. You are totally estranged from what you're doing. This is why cars have radios...
...Saturday morning. Seven years is a long wait-a third of my life, if you sit down and figure it out-and in all that time. Harvard had not been able to beat Army in a swimming meet. In 1962, when the Crimson won, 51-44. I was a traffic cop in the halls of my junior high school. And Saturday, as a writer on jock types. I was waiting to see if perhaps it could happen again. But I really doubted...