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Tires represent 60% of Dunlop's business. The rest includes such diverse items as disk brakes, moving sidewalks, even high-fashion boots. With Britons enjoying more leisure time than ever, Managing Director Reay Geddes, 52, is working to see that they spend it using Dunlop golf clubs, tennis rackets, fishing tackle-or latex foam mattresses. Tall, grey-eyed Geddes, who has roamed the world as a salesman, is also busily reorganizing his company. "We had become too big and too varied for a central form of management," says he. Geddes has given more autonomy to managers of Dunlop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: Dunlop Rides High | 5/29/1964 | See Source »

...temperature of Jupiter's cold atmosphere. Although the photometer designed by Engineer James A. Westphal is 20 to 50 times as sensitive as earlier instruments, it registered no change as it scanned the Great Red Spot and the light and dark bands that decorate Jupiter's disk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Astronomy: What Makes the Shadows Hot | 5/29/1964 | See Source »

Born. To Anita Bryant, 24, recording star (Until There Was You), singing sidekick to Bob Hope in four U.S.O. Christmas tours, and Disk Jockey Robert Green, 33: a daughter; in Miami...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: May 29, 1964 | 5/29/1964 | See Source »

...President recalled his own Texas boyhood and how his fingers got sore from milking cows. He asked Mrs. Marlow if her children get enough to eat. She said: "They get about everything they need, but clothes is hard." Johnson asked Marlow about his back. "What you got? A disk?" Said Marlow: "Yes, but these boys do pretty well. They pretty well keep up the place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: When Patriotism & Politics Coincide | 5/15/1964 | See Source »

...wrought? By a series of simple edicts, issued by Traffic Commissioner Antonio Pala. On 57 main streets in Rome's three-square-mile central area, all parking-even stopping-was banned. Everywhere else, parking was limited to an hour, and all parked cars were required to display cardboard disks showing the hour of arrival and the hour of expiration. Not even M.D.s were exempt. "A doctor can do almost anything in an hour," a traffic official declared. At the same time, a fleet of midget buses was launched to ferry people from parking areas on the edge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: The Roads of Rome | 5/15/1964 | See Source »

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