Word: tires
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...GOOD YEAR tire plant shines in the afternoon sun as the train slows down for Wilmington, Del. Children play in a puddle of murky water to the side of a windowless concrete warehouse. The decayed corrugated metal walls of the Phoenix Steel Corp sit icily in dank shadows. On through fields of belching smokestacks and huge storage containers...
Above $200 you enter the relm of racing bikes. These machines come close to the ultimate in light weight and performance. The frames are handmade of special alloy tubing, the tires are known as sew-ups, (very light with the tubes sewn inside). Having the tubes sewn inside makes them a real pain to patch, but there is no other way of making a tire as light (often less than 200 grams per tire) or as strong (racers ride with tire pressures well over 100 pounds per square inch), or as easy to change. While a bicycle like this...
Formal Protest. The next event produced the high point of the low comedy. At the end of the second lap in the four-lap bicycle race, Buffalo Brave Forward Jim McMillian swung out too far on a turn and clipped Anderson's back tire. McMillian went sprawling onto the track (he was only slightly injured). The chain fell off Anderson's bike, forcing him to retire. Miffed, Anderson marched off to lodge a formal protest that was quickly disallowed...
...hope that the Insurgents will eventually tire of fighting and agree to negotiate a truce. Western diplomats in Phnom-Penh, however, note no evidence that any of the guerrilla military leaders are inclined to talk. Instead, the rebels may simply pull back with the rains and resume their attack on the capital with the next dry season...
They meet with the impact and inevitability of an old tire and a rut in the road...