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...Year: the uncaped crusader, Ralph Nader...
Skimming through the voluminous stacks of mail that reach him in Washington, Ralph Nader last summer began picking up an unusual pattern of complaints about some products made by his old antagonist, G.M.'s Chevrolet Motor Division. Scores of engines on Chevies made from 1965 to 1969, the letters indicated, were twisting loose from car frames, sometimes with the frightening result that the auto's accelerator pedal was pulled all the way down to the floor and the brakes failed. At roughly the same time, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration was looking into similar complaints. Last week...
...industrial companies. Du Font's base remains in tiny Delaware, 47th in population among the states. That disparity in size intrigued Economist Lewis Anthony Dexter, who studied the situation in 1963 and concluded: "The elephant takes care not to dance among the chickens." It also intrigued Ralph Nader, who feels otherwise. In a report released last week, a group of his Raiders argued that the elephant not only dances with the chickens; it tramples them into the ground...
...page report, titled The Company State, Nader writes: "Du Pont dominates Delaware as does no single company elsewhere in any other state. Virtually every major aspect of Delaware life is pervasively and decisively affected by the Du Pont company, the Du Pont family, or their designees." Irenée du Pont Jr., 51, a company vice president and de facto family spokesman, told TIME Correspondent Hays Gorey that the charges are nonsense. Du Pont approves a description of the report by Dr. Julian Hill, a retired Du Pont chemist, as "intellectual vandalism." He adds: "I don't believe there...
...Nader report pries at every chink in the uses of the Du Fonts' corporate and family power. Among the Raiders' charges-and Du Font's rebuttals...