Word: tires
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Randolph Beard, a flag manufacturer, and they had two children. He was "very wealthy, very wonderful, and also, he was an alcoholic. So there's me and five children, a drunk husband and two dogs." One son was injured in an automobile accident ("You can still see the tire prints across his chest"), and she tried to nurse them both. That, she says, was when her heart began to bother her. (She and Beard are divorced, and he now lives in retirement on a Tennessee farm, where he is a successful member of Alcoholics Anonymous.) "With no father...
...miles of multilane highways. Nearly all of the $47 billion cost has been paid from the Highway Trust Fund, which lives off the 4?-a-gallon federal gasoline tax. The highway program has created much convenience for drivers, countless jobs for workers-and untold profits for auto, oil, tire, cement, construction, motel and other companies. Lately the program has also earned much criticism...
Bogdanovich will surely fade. A good man for acting, and not without a certain low-profile taste, he will continue to make movies which, as he put it, "show a specific emotion on the screen," and camp-followers soon will tire of his one-note chords...
...that mood is likely to change as unemployment rises. Late last week auto and tire factories laid off 30,000 workers-the first of millions who will be without work when power cuts of 50% go into effect this week in thousands of factories. Prospects of an early settlement appear dim. When talks broke down completely last week, Employment and Productivity Minister Robert Carr turned the dispute between the miners and the National Coal Board over to an official court of inquiry, which will take about ten days to complete its report...
Mitchell, who swam on Haydon's shoulder for most of the race, was unable to take the lead early and tire out the Princeton swimmer in order to let Baughman, catch up. But, with an exciting final sprint he was able to nip Haydon at the finish and win the race in a new school and pool record time of 4:45.5. Baughman took third with a personal best of 4:50.2, "My strategy was to get him at the end," Mitchell said, "because that is what he tried to do to Baughman...