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...belted bonanza. Most of them have now regained lost ground in the market, which includes $3.8 billion a year in replacement purchases and the $700 million spent on equipping new cars. Recently several major tiremakers stepped up the competitive pace by putting out still another variety of tire, the "radial...
...creating a European-based multinational group on a truly American scale." Pirelli's management, vexed by labor troubles at home, sees the tie-up as a way to expand in the U.S. and in other markets. Both partners hope to capitalize on Pirelli's expertise in radial tires. The radial, with the cords in its fabric at right angles to the direction of wheel turn, lasts longer than softer-riding conventional tires, which have the fabric running diagonally in crisscross layers...
...work is no strain at all," agreed Conrad. The astronauts tried to compensate geologists for the loss of TV views by conscientiously describing everything they saw: glazed rocks at the centers of craters, soil built up at the base of rocks, bedrock under the black dust, and a radial spray pattern around the 40-ft.-wide Sharp Crater...
...Medicine presented their latest hand-and-heart findings to the American College of Cardiology last week. Although the cause and nature of a heart defect or disorder are often obscure, the doctors suggested that these may become apparent to "the cardiovascular sleuth who lingers a moment longer at the radial (wrist) pulse to inspect the hand closely...
...same thing." To be sure, the idea of having a 2,000-ton tower suspended over space presented structural problems, but these, as Gibberd put it, can be solved "if you get a lot of chaps together with some real know-how." Prestressed concrete was used for the 16 radial buttresses, while the roof was prefabricated from huge slabs of concrete hauled into place by the largest tower crane in Europe after a model of the cathedral was tested in a wind tunnel to prove it would withstand the impact of three Boeing 707s...