<VV> A waste of time...

[Secular]

  Patricia Cronin, had written a biography of Nader. On page 10 of her book, 
  she writes:

  "where he [Nader] had been the model student at Princeton, he became the 
  supreme slacker at Harvard and graduated in the lower half of his class. Nader 
  cut classes as a regular practice and would often disappear for days at a time...

  ...Soon after his arrival in Cambridge, Nader sold the ONLY automobile he ever
  owned, a 1949 Studebaker and resumed his habit of walking or hitchhiking to 
  get around the city..."

  source:

  http://tinyurl.com/cronin-nader-bio


  Tony I.

 
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Kepler" <jekepler at amplex.net>
To: "'Secular'" <rusecular at yahoo.com>; <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 7:02 AM
Subject: RE: <VV> A waste of time...


> 
>  He graduated summa cum laude with a degree in politics, writing a thesis 
>  on Lebanese Agriculture...
> 
> 
> I interviewed Ralpie for the college rag in 1973....an interview that lasted
> around 90 minutes...engineering undergrad car-nut to agendized blow-hard
> clueless author/lawyer.  It was very apparent, very quickly that what Ralph
> knew about science/engineering/cars would echo in a thimble!  His "Unsafe At
> Any Speed" was largely parroted from others slightly more knowledgeable, but
> no less agendized than Ralphie....he couldn't even grasp the concept of
> "trailing-throttle oversteer", not even with small words and pictures!  He
> wasn't even aware that VW's (as well as Mercedes and Porsche) had the same
> rear suspension as the Corvair...and unlike the Corvair, the Beetle's
> suspension actually would "tuck".  And this is the "expert" that various
> knot-heads STILL listen to!
> 
>