POLITICS: Cause C

There is such a feeling of powerlessness in this country. It is as true of the executive who commutes every morning from Greenwich to Wall Street as it is of the blacks, the young, the blue collar, the housewife. We all have the feeling that we want to complain to the manager, but the manager is invisible. Nobody knows who he is or where to find him.

Thus John Gardner, the protean former Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, explained the mood in which last summer he founded a citizens' lobby called Common...

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