Word: tiring
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Even where no overt violence was erupting, travel and communications were either halted or unbearably difficult. Gasoline shortages kept many cars in their garages, and virtually none would venture out at night, when roads were strewn with miguelitos-double-S-curved pieces of steel guaranteed to rip any tire. A seat on one of the few buses in service required a booking several days in advance. Trains were running, but late and overcrowded...
...Ashland Oil, Inc. ($100,-000), American Airlines ($55,000), Goodyear Tire & Rubber...
Political dirty tricks, as White House spokesmen never tire of explaining, are hardly a novelty, nor is the use of the FBI to help play those tricks. According to a memo by William Sullivan, former No. 3 man at the FBI, the White House has a point. He says both Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson used the agency as a weapon against political opponents...
...lend her name to everything from leg lotion and deodorants to toothpaste and soap pow der have been turned down. Explains Jimmy Evert: "It takes time to do these things. When Chrissie's not playing ten nis, I'd rather she not be doing things that will tire her out. This is still a game with us. It's not a business...
...their customers well, and that the companies they acquired were incapable of surviving independently in a bitterly competitive business. Industry sources point out that Firestone bought out Seiberling Rubber Co., one of the acquisitions challenged by the Justice Department, only after getting feelers from the financially rocky firm. Lee Tire & Rubber had not produced a single tire in the past 30 months before it was acquired by Goodyear in 1966. Firestone issued a statement saying that the Government suit against it "is absurd and untenable and has no foundation in economics or law." In its view, traditional among antitrust defendants...