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...endorsement carried particular weight because the federal agency, which only last week announced that it was urging Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. to recall 15 million of its steel-belted 500 radial tires for safety defects, is headed by Joan Claybrook, an avid consumerist who for four years directed Ralph Nader's Congress Watch group in Washington. Said Claybrook: "Our conclusion is that the Omni/Horizon has very good handling characteristics very similar to many other small cars...
Congress looks at radial tires...
...June of 1974 the Louis Neal family was driving near Las Vegas when one of their car's Firestone 500 steel-belted radial tires blew, causing the car to go out of control and crash. Mother and father were killed, and one child was crippled. Five surviving children sued, charging that the tire was defective. Last week Firestone settled out of court for $1.4 million. Far from being an isolated case, the accident is one of a string that has raised unsettling questions about the safety of U.S. steel-belted radials...
...take on the Germans and the Americans, let alone the Japanese, unless you have a well-diversified international industry, which implies foreign direct investment on an ever increasing scale." Michelin, the big tire firm, is leading the way with plans to spend upward of $400 million to produce its radial tires in four American plants...
...trembling old dragonflies but were the Concordes of their time seldom became a painter's subject: Delaunay made them so with Homage to Blériot, 1913-14. It is a marvelously aerated image of flight. The painted discs that had become his signature function variously as wheels, radial engines, sunbursts and air force roundels; a red propeller flaps, and a biplane hangs like an angel in a mandorla of color. No athlete himself, Delaunay was fascinated by organized spectator sport-itself a "modern" phenomenon. Its sense of disciplined energy appealed to him, and in the various versions...