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...were, from the beginning, aware of the tire's flaws. The documents show that while Di Federico and virtually all other top executives at one time or another were receiving detailed reports about tire failure from their own production people and major corporate buyers like General Motors and Atlas Tire Co., they still assured the public that the 500 had no safety defects, and were not telling stockholders of the problems...
...list of references to the early troubles of the tire is long. Atlas Tire wrote to the company in 1973: "In the eyes of Atlas, it appears Firestone is coming apart at the seams and drastic action is required." General Motors and Ford both complained strongly about the 500's high rate of failure...
...cool, clear night last November a gleaming Atlas-Centaur rocket sat ready on its floodlit launch pad at Cape Kennedy. Perched atop the silver booster, the High Energy Astronomical Observatory-2 (HEAO-2), the most ambitious and advanced astrophysics research probe ever, lay shrouded in protective covering...
...increases. Unhappy with the seizure, Sawyer acted only when assured of the order in writing. Resigning his post after Eisenhower's election, he returned to Ohio and his law practice, continuing to hold firm his belief in the nation's free enterprise system. "The United States, like Atlas, is holding up the world," he once said. "But who holds up Atlas? American business...
...indifferent to his existence. Daily, however, his royal host, King Hassan II, drives over to Dar es Salaam Palace for a tete-a-tete, often chauffeuring himself in a sleek Mercedes 4505E with only a chihuahua lap dog as sentinel. There is an occasional family excursion into the Middle Atlas Mountains, but this involves screaming sirens and two limousine loads of jittery security guards scarcely a soothing outing. At home at the palace, 200 Moroccan troops are on guard duty...