Word: tiring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hedever and Great Power, stablemates of Damascus and Buckpasser, respectively, will probably set a fast early pace in an attempt to tire the front-running Dr. Fager and Handsome Boy. The race may thus develop into an intriguing strategic duel, with Buckpasser and Damascus hoping to come from off the pace to overtake the fleet Dr. Fager...
...towns are prospering, often because the developer acquired strategically placed land decades ago at a bargain price. Around Los Angeles, not only the Irvine Ranch (TIME, Sept. 22) but also Valencia and Janss-Thousand Oaks are being transformed into cities by the families that once only farmed them. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. is converting its onetime cotton farm outside Phoenix, Ariz., into Litchfield Park, a planned town for 100,000. McCulloch Oil Corp. has attracted more than 2,500 settlers to its resort-and-industry town of Lake Havasu City in the sparsely inhabited Arizona desert along the Colorado River...
Back in 1940, Dutch-born Psychiatrist Renatus Hartogs suffered a traumatic experience on a Long Island highway. Unable to fix a flat tire, he summoned a garage mechanic...
Trouble has already begun. A twelve-week-old strike in the rubber industry spread last week to Goodyear, the only major company that was still untouched (though Goodrich and General Tire reached tentative agreement on a contract). At the same time, a strike hit the copper industry, affecting eight companies that account for more than 80% of the nation's output. In a small but violent dispute (at least 20 people injured), workers walked off the job at Virginia's Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co.-the first general strike at the world's largest shipyard. Meanwhile...
...whole car weighed only 1,185 Ibs. The project, of course, was painfully expensive. In all, Gurney and Shelby built four Formula I American Eagles in Santa Ana, at an average cost of $50,000. To help cover the costs, they signed contracts with two commercial sponsors-Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. and Mobil Oil Corp. This year Mobil pulled out, leaving A.A.R. short the $300,000 it needed to mount a full-scale effort on the Grand Prix circuit...