Word: tiring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pipes above the real exhaust vents. The most complicated rear end appears on the Dodge Custom Royal Lancer, whose chrome-scrolled tail fenders sprout sharklike fins and snorkel-like radio antennae. Ford's Thunderbird had a functional reason for a big change in the rear. It hung the tire mount outside to make more room in the luggage compartment...
Next day, the first day of school, Dean is greeted by his classmates as "a new disease," and during a field trip to the planetarium, a leather-jacketed roughneck slashes a tire on his car. "You read too many comic books." says Dean. They fight with knives. Dean wins. The boy challenges him to a "chickie run" -a dash to the edge of a cliff in two stolen cars; first man to jump out before the cars go over the brink is "chicken." Caught between folly and disgrace. Dean asks his father what to do. Father funks out. Dean makes...
...James Crane Kellogg III, 40, senior partner in Spear, Leeds & Kellogg, Wall Street's biggest specialists firm with 55 stocks (American Airlines, Boeing, General Tire, Union Oil, etc.), who put up $618,000 for 25,000 shares of American Airlines alone to support the market during the cardiac break, at one point was $163,000 in the hole. ¶John Coleman, 53, head of Adler, Coleman & Co. (53 stock issues, including American Tobacco, Armour, Motorola). ¶Benjamin Einhorn, 48, partner in Astor & Rose, which handles Sperry Rand and 14 other stocks...
...MacIntosh, the line will be basically intact. But Munro is worried about the strength of his backfield, which so far this year has held down opposition scoring until the line could combine to tally. Tony Oberschall will fill in at halfback, should Denny Little, Stacy Holmes, or John Haddik tire. Captain Hugh Sargent and Don Beaver will start at fullback, although they both have injured legs and may not be able to go full tilt...
...TIRE PRICES are going up for the fifth time in a year. Firestone, Goodyear, U.S. Rubber and others have boosted prices from 1½% to 5% on all tube-type passenger, farm, and industrial tires. But most rubber producers will not increase their tubeless-tire prices...