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...safety bill, the rubber companies are rolling out a whole batch of new tires that have some of the most important changes since the introduction of rayon cord (1938), nylon cord (1947) and tubeless tires (1947). Compared with existing tires, they wear longer, are less likely to blow out, grip the road more strongly, and keep their shape better...
...angles to one another, forming a diamond pattern around the wheel, but in a radial tire the cords are at 90° angles, forming a pattern of crosses. With this structure, the faster a car goes, the more tread is slapped onto the ground. The result is better road grip and up to 100% longer tread life-but also a harder ride. The tires are costly: about $50 each...
...wizardry and spy fiction to fizz up the formula for a Doris Day sex comedy. As usual, the man cast opposite her has to perform somewhat like the catcher in a flashy female trapeze act, and Rod Taylor doughtily goes through the motions of Doris-appreciation without losing his grip. As a combination scientific whiz kid and loverboy, Rod invents an anti-gravity device, heads a U.S. space center for NASA, goes home after launch to a more or less circular pad with a guest wing as roomy as a Holiday Inn. One unit is decorated in passionate...
...real estate that is constantly being snatched up by the University, and the students who are steadily enlarging their grip on the City's housing market constitute one of the most consistent tensions between Harvard and the rest of Cambridge. "The biggest criticism that I've heard of the town-grown scene is that the University people have boosted rents so high that local people can't stay anymore," says one local politician...
...Cartographer Robert M. Chapin Jr. fell the intricate assignment of showing precisely what happens to the baseball as Marichal pitches-fastball, screwball, slider and curve. Marichal posed his right hand and ball grip for the four photographs in the diagram that illustrates the cover story, and made several suggestions and corrections in the drafts of Chapin's drawing. It should be pointed out that Chapin brought some baseball credentials of his own to the task. He once pitched for the Pirates -the Park Road Pirates of Washington...