Word: rubberized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Anderson's widow sued Russell-eventually he settled out of court for $15,000-and then both she and Russell sued G.M. They also brought suit against the local Corvair dealer and the U.S. Rubber Corp., which had manufactured the car's tires. Against G.M., they made two charges: that the Corvair's doors and door handles were too weak to withstand the pressure of a rollover, and that because of a poorly designed rear axle, the rear wheels tended to tuck in and lose all traction in a swerve...
...smoothly snares German Deserter Marlon Brando into agreeing to a perilous bit of World War II secret agentry. He must find and disarm the demolition charges placed on a German freighter, so that in the event of Allied capture, the Germans will not be able to scuttle their precious rubber cargo. Equipped with forged Nazi credentials and the suavest German accent since Erich von Stroheim. Brando climbs aboard the freighter, captained by Yul Brynner, and loses no time in going on the prowl...
...continuance of Sukarno's far leftward drift. With Red China's Foreign Minister Chen Yi sitting near by as an honored guest, Sukarno predictably ripped into the U.S., pledged "active support" to the Viet Cong guerrillas in South Viet Nam and threatened to nationalize U.S. oil and rubber interests that are already undergovernment control. U.S. Ambassador Marshall Green heard him out in stony silence...
...dozen other brands, advises that "now that you have acquired a taste for Scotch, you are ready for Hudson's Bay." An ad for Old Grand-Dad bourbon names half a dozen leading competitive brands in wishing them happy birthday "from the head of the family." U.S. Rubber promotes its Royal golf ball by picturing it with four better-known balls and the headline, "The five leading golf balls: only one is registered." This fall American Motors will specifically name competing cars in its new ad campaign as a way of pointing up Rambler features. Many more advertisers that...
Died. Jesse William Shields, 78, one of the U.S. rubber industry's most inventive engineers, who directed physical research first at Goodyear and later at Firestone, in 1932 conceived a low-pressure pneumatic tractor tire that proved a major boon to farming, during World War II developed hard-rubber tracks for U.S. and British tanks, and a foam plastic float used to transport vehicles ashore in the Okinawa landing; of chronic lung disease; in Wilmington...