<VV> A waste of time...

[Spence Shepard]

I attended a talk by Ralph at Ithaca (NY) College in 1970 or 71 whileI was 
attending another College there. It was a time when "Activists" were very 
popular with college students. I don't remember much other than I didn't 
think he was very impressive and I talked with him after his speech. He did 
admit that he wasn't an Engineer and implied that he really didn't undertand 
the "details" of his perceived problems with the Corvair.

Spence Shepard
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>
>  It's said that [Ralph] Nader had no toys as a child, because his mother 
> thought
>  toys were "a waste of time".
>
>  In grade school, Nader had few friends, but one of them, David 
> Halberstam, became
>  a noted author, and won a Pulitzer Prize. At Princeton, Nader was a 
> straight-A student
>  who, in his spare time, organized an anti-DDT activist group.
>
>  Once, leaving the Princeton campus for summer break in his 1949 
> Studebaker, Nader
>  slammed on the brakes just in time to avoid the jaywalking Albert 
> Einstein.
>
>  He graduated summa cum laude with a degree in politics, writing a thesis
>  on Lebanese Agriculture...
>
>  ...Nader's book focused mostly on the Chevrolet Corvair, but many of the 
> problems
>  detailed were applicable in every auto showroom and highway smash-up.
>  The response to Unsafe at Any Speed led Congress to pass the Traffic and
>  Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1966. And since then, everything that adds 
> the
>  word "safety" to the word "automotive" -- seat belts, air bags, even the
>  idea of manufacturers' recalls, or requiring crash tests -- can be traced
>  to that act of Congress, and to Nader's book...
>
>  source:
>
>  http://www.nndb.com/people/788/000023719/
>
>
>  Tony I.
>
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