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...backed up, drivers risked life and fender to pass the righteous threesome, climbing embankments and zooming along the shoulders. Once in front of their tormentors, some irate motorists immediately slowed to about 15 m.p.h. out of spite. "One semitrailer slammed on his brakes so fast he blew out a tire. I was lucky I didn't crash into him," recalled Lipski. "People got violent. We didn't expect them to try to kill us, but they did." When the procession reached Detroit it stretched half a mile or more and numbered some 600 cars. There was nothing illegal...
...about $6,000 (the average 1967 GM auto cost $3,000). Murphy dropped an elephantine hint to the U.A.W. to be reasonable; he expressed hope that no further price boosts on the '77s will be required. One other cloud on the auto horizon, the threat of a tire shortage, seems to be dissolving. The United Rubber Workers and Firestone announced tentative agreement on a contract under which the first of 60,000 rubber workers could begin returning from a 126-day strike this week...
...currently negotiating new contracts of their own, at present have an average hourly wage of $6.57. The settlement will cost the Big Four at least $400 million annually by the third year of the contract, and in expectation of those higher costs, the companies were already raising tire prices...
...impact of the rubber strike has been minimal. At first, the union hoped that auto plants would have to shut down for lack of new tires. Instead, tire inventories were so high, mostly because of auto-industry stockpiling during the winter and spring, plus the flow of tires from companies still in operation, that the strike caused almost no repercussions-except for the workers themselves. The union's strike fund was exhausted after only four weeks, and many of the workers were forced to use up savings and go deeply into debt...
...window where the voice said, "Odd hate to hafta git mah gun." He was halfway down the drive before his uncle, an ex-Marine sharpshooter and lifetime member of the NRA (at a cost of $200) began blasting away with his ninehundred dollar 25-06 deer rifle. A tire went fwooo, and Bell clunked along on three wheels. Christ, he's serious, thought Bell, and the rear windshield sprayed glass over him. I wish I was on some Australian mountain range ran through his mind and Bell, who liked Hank Williams but liked Dylan more, bailed out the passenger side...