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Balanced Tire. U.S. Rubber Co. has developed what it calls the first passenger ire with a built-in permanent balance. The tubeless tire, called the "Safti-Flight," contains a wide, dense strip of rubber that runs completely around the nside rim and is buffed out in spots to balance the tire. List price: $67.15 for a 14-in. tire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Jul. 8, 1957 | 7/8/1957 | See Source »

...married a title (Michael Rennie), Lana is described by her husband as "greedy, selfish, decadent, corrupt"-by which he means that she has a roving eye. As the story begins, Lana goes flouncing off to India to pick up a stallion from a maharani's stable. Enter Dr. Safti (Richard Burton), an untouchable who has been educated in England, and pretty soon the twain are meeting under every deodar that could stand the trip to California. Maybe it's yoga and maybe not, but Lana suddenly realizes what she has been needing all her life. They decide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Double Trouble | 1/9/1956 | See Source »

...Rubber is No. 2 U. S. tiremaker (No. 1, Goodyear). Its President Francis Breese Davis Jr. wants to expand without increasing the total U. S. tire production facilities. Fisk will give him a first-rate trade name, a going concern with a best-selling tire (Safti-Flight), plus New England tire plants that U. S. Rubber lacks. Also important, the deal will give U. S. Rubber valuable Fisk tire patents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Fisk to U. S. | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...Louis Bromfield serial in Cosmopolitan, after the rain they seem sadly washed out and anticlimactic. Chief among them are Tom Ransome (George Brent), a remittance man from a good county family, his old flame Lady Edwina Esketh (Myrna Loy), who deserted him to find a rich husband, and Major Safti (Tyrone Power), the handsome, high-caste Indian surgeon for whom Lady Esketh wickedly sets her cap. While trying to keep his friend Safti out of Lady Esketh's clutches, Ransome has his hands full with a stage-struck missionary's daughter, Fern Simon (Brenda Joyce). To Ransome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Sep. 18, 1939 | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

...weather is not the sole cause of their tension: the close, gossipy air of the colony contains other conflicts. Fern, sought by a young Army officer, is in love with the cynical Ransome. Miss MacDaid. despite race-prejudice, is hopelessly enamored of the high-souled but brown-skinned Major Safti. Lovely, lickerish Lady Esketh revives a past entanglement with Ransome, simultaneously sets a determined cap for the surgeon. They are all treading on each other's erotic heels in this fashion when the rains come-this time with catastrophic force, accompanied by an earthquake which for ten days isolates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Storm Over India | 10/25/1937 | See Source »

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