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...they may have to move faster than that. Foreign competitors are making a major drive, and last year they increased their U.S. volume by 35%, accounting for 6,700,000 of the 170 million tires sold domestically. France's Michelin is building a radial-tire plant in Nova Scotia and intends to export almost the entire output to the U.S. market. And on the West Coast, Japan's Bridgestone has just introduced a steel-belted radial guaranteed for 40,000 miles...
...small sidestreet-Scotia Street near the Cheri theatres-policemen broke ranks and ran after demonstrators who had either lagged behind or fallen down. They struck about seven people with clubs, shoving one up against a brick wall and back to the street, hitting him repeatedly on the neck and back...
William Fruett's screenplay tells of two young men who leave a cloistered small-town existence in impoverished Nova Scotia for the promise of lively jobs, money and women in Toronto. They are, of course, doomed to failure. Their only city acquaintance is an uncle who refuses to recognize them; unable to find anything better, they finally drift to working in a bottling plant. Eighty dollars a week is a lavish salary to Peter and Joey, and they spend whatever they get on drinks and waitresses. When Joey, the more frivolous of the pair, knocks up a girlfriend and decides...
...Down the Road is one of the new "road" films in which a stretch of asphalt provides the metaphoric core. Pete (Doug McGrath) and his pal Joey (Paul Bradley) are two wistful roustabouts from the Canadian Maritime Provinces. With 30 bucks and an abused Chevrolet labeled "My Nova Scotia Home," they pick up and head for Toronto...
...romantic guilt. The jobs evaporate; to survive, the trio becomes a menage a trois. The bad luck persists with the tenacity of winter. Tn lunatic desperation, the men commit a petty crime that escalates into violence. The only way out is the way west, and once again the Nova Scotia Home consumes the miles...