<VV> A waste of time...

[Jay Pitchford]

Too bad Nader wasn't jaywalking with Einstein missing the brakes . . .

On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 6:49 AM, Secular <rusecular at yahoo.com> wrote:

>
>  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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