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Less than two years ago, Akron's Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., the second largest U.S. tiremaker, behind Goodyear, was skidding almost uncontrollably toward bankruptcy. Sales to the U.S. auto industry were sharply off, and some of Firestone's most faithful customers, like Ford, had been turning to France's Michelin for radial tires for certain models. In addition, Firestone was reeling from a 1978 agreement with the Government forcing it to begin recalling up to 10 million of its 500 radial because of possibly dangerous defects. Related consumer and class-action lawsuits against the company sought damages...
...Easterns, Harvard had suffered two major casualties and could not have played a third game on the same competitive level. Netminder Janet Judge, who resembled a force-field against UConn despite a broken finger sustained in the semis, will start tomorrow with her fingers wrapped in foam rubber. "There's no way I wasn't going to play," says Judge...
...Linowitz, Senior Partner, Coudert Bros.; William S. Litwin, President, Kero-Sun Inc.; Stewart G. Long, Vice President, Trans World Airlines Inc.; Henry Luce III, President, Henry Luce Foundation Inc.; Robert H. Malott, Chairman, EMC Corp.; Gerald C. Meyers, Chairman, American Motors Corp.; John J. Nevin, Chairman, Firestone Tire & Rubber Co.; Frank Pace Jr., President, International Executive Service Corps; Donald S. Perkins, Chairman, Jewel Companies Inc.; Paul C. Sheeline, Chairman, Inter-Continental Hotels Corp.; Forrest N. Shumway, Chairman, Signal Companies Inc.; John G. Smale, President, Procter & Gamble Co.; Thomas J. Watson Jr., Chairman emeritus, International Business Machines Corp.; George Weissman, Chairman...
...WIFE, Linda, participates unconsciously in perpetuating Willy's delusions; she pretends not to know his salary has been slashed to the bone and that he borrows money from a friend each week to bring her a "salary." She does not confront him with the rubber pipe he hides in the basement and doesn't tell him she knows he wants to kill himself with it. Linda chastizes ungrateful Biff when he rebels; he is trying to shake off the chains of his father's beliefs about him. "You wretch! You don't know, but I'll tell you! That...
...reports Sally Baker, who owns Chicago's Futon Studio. Boston's Shinera Futon Mattress Inc. sells 75,000 units yearly at about $95 for one of twin size covered in a standard fabric. To emphasize the comfort dimension, some new futons come with a core of foam rubber, which seems to disturb at least a few futon purists. Not to worry, soothes Emily Kossowsky of Boston's New Moon Futon Co. Says she: "We stress that the foam is surrounded by cotton...