In the Public Interest

“GREED,” screams the lurid headline on the cover of this month’s Sport magazine, “Look What It’s Done To Our Games.” “It’s consumer fraud,” exclaims an obviously upset sportswriter in recounting a spate of what he considered to be tricky maneuvers in the industry of professional sports. Is it time for the millions of sports fans…

Tens. — Barbara Walters is not to be corning to interview J. W. Bradley, Neil McBride or John Williams in this Appalachian hill town anytime soon. Nor is any national political candidate about to lead a train of TV cameras to show the proper concern for the wave after wave of strip mined mountains and.…

General Motors has lost its best unpaid lobbyist. ‘He is Leonard Woodcock who retired this month as head of the United Auto Workers (UAW). For several years Woodcock was there whenever GM and the other Michigan auto compa­nies needed him. He defended their enormous price increases, fought incessantly before Con­gress against necessary air pollution standards,…

Among the thousands of lawyers who have heard Professor Thomas F. Lambert Jr. speak, there are few who do not vividly remember his factual and oratorical eloquence in defense of the legal rights of consumers and workers injured be­cause of hazardous products and equipment. Lambert, an editor of trial lawyers publications at 20 Garden St.,…

Like a brooding cloud over Capitol Hill, the Congressional pay increase issue just won’t blow away. The spectacle of Senators and Representatives raising their already generous salaries and bene­fits another $12,000 (to $57,500) by not voting earlier this year is fraught with images of over­reaching and hypocrisy. In its quantitative clarity, the pay increase, together…

Food Day, April 21, 1977, has come and gone. Sponsored by the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), this annual event is involving increasing numbers of Americans who want to learn about food, nutrition, health and safety, and what the food industry does to them. A latter-day Ambrose Bierce could probably define civilization…

On January 26, 1977, NBC News presented a television documentary entitled “Danger! Radioactive Waste.” The documentary team, directed by Joan Konner, filmed the sites of these lethal wastes, many of them lethal for thousands of years to come. The serious problems and various opinions about these ghastly residues from nuclear power plants were well presented,…

Does Jimmy Carter fear his own idealism? Why does he surround himself with top level aides, like James Schlesinger, his chief energy advisor, who has styled himself as a ‘left Republican”? The paradox of Mr. Carter is that he is more progressive than many of his top associates, if we are to believe what many…

The General Motors Chairman, Thomas A. Mur­phy, waxed angry before his New York business audience a few days ago. He attacked Washington rumors that the Carter Administration may pro­pose a tax on big, gas-guzzling automobiles as “one of the most simplistic, irresponsible and short-sighted ideas ever conceived” with effects that “the hip shooting marketeers of…

The disastrous Canary Island run­way crash of two jumbo jets operated by KLM and Pan American raises anew the questions: Why have not the airlines or their over-accommo­dating regulator, the FAA, required the aircraft manufacturers to build more passenger survivability into airplanes? Most commercial airline crashes occur on landing or takeoff at low altitudes and…