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Heidelberger, 60, proprietor of a 40-acre spread called the Musket Ranch and Trading Post, began collecting used tires before World War II. He sold his original hoard for a penny a pound in the wartime rush to find desperately needed rubber supplies. The war ended, but Heidelberger's passion for tires did not. Today, after more than 30 years of relentless collecting, he figures he has between 8 million and 12 million. His tires cover ten acres, rise to a 40-ft. peak and are a local landmark...
...Radio Freak C.W. McCall (writer of the 1976 bestselling single Convoy) and Actor Kris Kristofferson share the same handle: "Rubber Duck." Kristofferson's, however, is strictly for the movies. As a rough-talking trucker in Convoy, Sam Peckinpah's new film, inspired by McCall's record, Kristofferson leads 100 fellow truckers in a madcap chase -with 20 or so police cars in pursuit. Up in the cab with "Rubber Duck" is his new girl, played by Actress Ali MacGraw, who is making her first movie since The Getaway in 1973. The longhaired Cliffie of Love Story even...
...other expenses must be paid for by team members. These include travel expenses for road matches, which can be as high as $30 per person for each trip, and the cost of replacing paddles and balls. Just resurfacing a paddle with new rubber, a paddle-lift good players' must undergo at least twice a year, can cost...
Less easy to explain away was a steep rise in industrial commodity prices. Many basic products, including aluminum, rubber and various plastics, are getting more expensive all the time -and manufacturers have been moved, or at least tempted, to reflect the real or anticipated higher cost of supplies in their own prices. Take James Brownell, vice president of Florida-based Weatherking, Inc., maker of air conditioners: "I have seen in the past several months price increases from my vendors slip upward from five to seven percent. It scares the daylights...
...specialist in medieval Russian history, Keenan is currently director of the Russian Research Center, a post he plans to abandon when he takes his new job July 1, pending confirmation--usually rubber-stamped--by the Corporation and the Board of Overseers in the coming month...