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FRANKFURTER can be found just below Frankenstein in the dictionary. It can also be found immediately beneath contempt in Ralph Nader's vast lexicon of villains. To Nader, the ABM and the smart bomb are scarcely more lethal than a chain of processed sausages. Hot dogs, insists the consumer advocate, are "among America's deadliest missiles." New York City's Consumer Affairs Commissioner Bess Myerson agrees: "After I found out what was in hot dogs, I stopped eating them." This people's entrée, this frank companion of alfresco meals and ball games...
...Housing and Undergraduate Life could mobilize on this issue quickly and enthusiastically enough petition tables at registration and a student with a rubber stamp for dining hall tags should be able to take care of the implementation compare what has been done for getting the money for the Nader project...
Then Washington's Center for Auto Safety, which was spawned by Ralph Nader, charged that Cadillac officials had purposely concealed a "life-and-death safety defect" on 1959-60 model cars for nearly 13 years. The problem was in a part called the Pitman arm, a crucial component of the steering system. Center spokesmen said that the metal used in the Pitman arms of more than 200,000 cars was not sufficiently strong and that three people have died in accidents that may have been caused by the faulty part. They also charged that Cadillac officials in 1968 discussed...
...offer. But he had also pointedly added that he hoped that Ford would withdraw its proposed price increases entirely. The Government also began applying delaying tactics. The Price Commission has scheduled public hearings on car prices Sept. 12, at which it will hear such industry critics as Ralph Nader and United Automobile Workers President Leonard Woodcock. By the time the Commission finishes sifting the testimony, Rumsfeld predicted, it will be mid-October before any price boosts can be approved. That would be a full month after the first 1973 models go on sale...
...Ralph Nader called the report "a rebuke to the legal profession, which has failed in its educational and public service functions." Early this summer Nader awarded the Study Group a $9500 grant from his Public Service Fund to continue its efforts...