Word: tires
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...After a week, the windows came open a tiny crack, and finally they were flung open altogether. Increasingly, I was left alone for long periods. After ten days, the soldiers gave me a pair of sandals-or gap, as I learned to call them-cut from an old automobile tire. The North Vietnamese soldier who presented them to me told me they were "sandals of the Resistance." Then, with a grin, he whispered, "Gap Ho Chi Minh." They even began leaving their weapons around my room while they went on their errands-knives, carbines, AK-47s, Chinese-made grenades...
...says you can't go home again? Janis Joplin did it last week, and for her special effort won the prize-a flat tire-as the member of the class of '60 who had come the farthest for the reunion (from San Francisco to Port Arthur, Texas). Her Thomas Jefferson High School chums were more than a little bit surprised to find that she hadn't changed much, except for her feathered, wild, mod clothes. One buddy muttered rather sadly of the let-it-all-hang-out soul-rock singer: "I hate...
Died. Dan Able Kimball, 74, an early aviator and Secretary of the Navy from 1951 to 1953, but best known as the executive who turned Aerojet-General Corp. from a tiny General Tire subsidiary into an aerospace giant (engines, rockets, bomb fuses); in Washington, D.C. Less than two days after Kimball's death, his wife Doris, 69, who wrote a syndicated Washington column under her maiden name of Doris Fleeson, died of a stroke...
More and more, auto manufacturing is becoming a multinational business. Last week the French government approved the first deal in history under which companies from two countries, France's tire-making Michelin and Italy's car-making Fiat, will share control of a major auto manufacturer, France's Citroen. The companies had agreed on the outlines of the contract in 1968, but only now-long after De Gaulle had departed-did the government approve...
...Biggest Block. One morning last week Goodyear Tire & Rubber reported a marked decline in earnings. About noon, Salomon Bros, handled the sale and purchase of 1,184,300 shares of Goodyear-the largest block ever traded on the Big Board. Jay H. Perry, 35, the partner in charge of block trading' first got a call from a big Goodyear holder, who wanted to sell. The seller was eager to get out quickly as usual, but refused to accept less than the going market price. Perry made a deal to pick up the stock, and further decided...