Word: tiring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...uses his cheetah, Mike, for hunting and exercise. Exotic animals can be habit-forming. Jeri Hines, a Los Angeles divorcee with three children, bought a boa constrictor a couple of years ago. Since then, she has acquired an alligator, an aquatic toad, a green iguana and a tire eel, and has had to move to a new district because none of her neighbors would let their children into her house...
...broken valve cost him the German Grand Prix. A shaft snapped in Austria, a tire blew in the Indy 500, an oil line burst in the Mexican Grand Prix after Clark had led for 64 of the 65 laps. Britain's John Surtees won the 1964 Grand Prix championship; Clark finished third. To top it off, he got into a friendly snowball fight in the Italian Alps last month, twisted his back, and wound up with a slipped disc. The experts wondered: Was Clark washed...
Secretary of State Dean Rusk announced the first two contracts to be negotiated under the U.S.'s recently signed trade treaty with Rumania. Firestone Tire & Rubber will put up a $40 million synthetic-rubber factory, and Universal Oil Products will build a $10 million cracking plant in the oil-rich country. At the same time, a couple of U.S. companies were close to closing the largest commercial agreement ever negotiated between the U.S. and East Germany. If the $13 million deal goes through, Standard Oil of Ohio will supply the processes for an East German synthetic-textile plant...
Metallic inserts in tires are not brandnew. In the early days of the automobile, motorists sometimes fastened metal nuts to the tread, producing tires that gave good traction but ripped up highways and brought on many of the early anti-metallic-tire laws. Several years ago, metallic stud tires were developed in Sweden; they have since come into widespread use in Scandinavian countries, where they constitute as much as a quarter of all tire sales...
...studded tires cost $8 to $10 more than other snow tires, so far constitute less than 1% of all replacement tire sales, and are expected to remain in the limited "premium"-or high-priced-market for years. But the prospects for conventional snow tires seem unlimited, despite the fact that they are a regional and seasonal accessory. In suburbia, they have become as necessary as the second car or the power lawn mower. Many communities are so sold on their performance that they levy fines on any motorist who gets stuck in snow, blocks traffic, and is found to have...