Word: tiredly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That familiar economic harbinger, the open-walleted American tire-kicker, a year ago seemed on the way to extinction. But this spring the species is flocking into auto showrooms in greater numbers than almost anyone had expected. Industry figures released last week showed that May sales rose 37% over a year earlier, and automakers are scheduling for June the heaviest production in 30 months...
Instead of closing assembly lines around now, as had been expected, automakers have discovered that they have a large enough inventory of tires to keep running flat out at least through June. To be sure, they are shipping some cars with only four tires each (no spare for the unlucky driver who gets a flat). But some motorists have been able to get spares from auto dealers who carry stockpiles of tires, and the automakers promise that every buyer will get a fifth tire eventually...
...Heating & Cooling, the team's corporate sponsor, felt it could afford a second driver. Since then, the road has been rough, even when Janet has had the chance to get out onto it. The Vollstedt team, lacking the big backing enjoyed by teams sponsored by giant oil and tire firms, has moved forward in fits and starts. The worst worry: continual mechanical problems in Guthrie's Vollstedt-designed...
...that is unique in Western democracy. In 30 years they never went into opposition, primarily because their only effective rival, the Communists, always seemed too drastic an alternative to most Italians. Thus Italy, reports TIME'S Rome Bureau Chief Jordan Bonfante, "became a political unicycle without a spare tire. Denied the reinvigoration and change that periods in opposition allow, the Christian Democrats literally got stuck in power. As its leaders are fond of complaining, they became 'doomed to govern...
Campaigning with Reagan also meant hectic hours for National Political Correspondent Robert Ajemian, who interviewed the candidate in a car driving through Shreveport, La., then boarded a plane that blew out a tire, and finally reached New York at 4 a.m. to deliver his Q. and A. with Reagan. In Washington, Dean Fischer covered the Ford side of this week's cover stories...