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Trouble has already begun. A twelve-week-old strike in the rubber industry spread last week to Goodyear, the only major company that was still untouched (though Goodrich and General Tire reached tentative agreement on a contract). At the same time, a strike hit the copper industry, affecting eight companies that account for more than 80% of the nation's output. In a small but violent dispute (at least 20 people injured), workers walked off the job at Virginia's Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co.-the first general strike at the world's largest shipyard. Meanwhile...
...titanium, the whole car weighed only 1,185 Ibs. The project, of course, was painfully expensive. In all, Gurney and Shelby built four Formula I American Eagles in Santa Ana, at an average cost of $50,000. To help cover the costs, they signed contracts with two commercial sponsors-Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. and Mobil Oil Corp. This year Mobil pulled out, leaving A.A.R. short the $300,000 it needed to mount a full-scale effort on the Grand Prix circuit...
Records All Around. Foyt became the fourth driver in history to score three victories at Indy. His purse for this one-$171,227-set a record. So did the average speed: 151.207 m.p.h. Finally, by using Goodyear tires on his Coyote, Foyt snapped Firestone's 43-year-victory string at Indy...
Lesser labor disputes flared across the nation. Contracts covering 75,000 rubber workers at Goodyear, Firestone, Goodrich and Uniroyal run out April 20. Although Washington observers were optimistic that a strike would be avoided, an industry leader has already hinted that rubber prices are likely to go up as a result of expected increased labor costs of as much as 6%. More than 12,000 members of the Communications Workers of America have voted strike authorization to their negotiators with Western Electric Co., Inc., where their contract expired March 25. Talks have been held under day-to-day extensions...
...Worthless but Elegant. Intently following the course of the planes as they crashed into walls, plunged beneath chairs or fluttered helplessly to the floor were eight judges, including a woman parachutist, the pilot of the Goodyear blimp, a senior researcher of Princeton's aerodynamics laboratory, and the owner of Manhattan's Go Fly A Kite store. Using stop watches, tape measures and esthetic expertise, the judges picked winners in four different categories: duration aloft, distance flown, aerobatics and origami (the ancient Japanese art of paper folding...