Word: tiring
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During the 25,000 miles or so of its whirling life, the automobile tire bites the road in hundreds of thousands of stops, gets scraped by sidewalks and bruised by potholes, and runs long and hard at temperatures as high as 275°. Through all this, the tire is generally ignored until the day it goes flat. Now tires are getting a new kind of attention...
Prodded by the press, by state governments and by Congress, which is holding hearings on a tire-safety bill, the rubber companies are rolling out a whole batch of new tires that have some of the most important changes since the introduction of rayon cord (1938), nylon cord (1947) and tubeless tires (1947). Compared with existing tires, they wear longer, are less likely to blow out, grip the road more strongly, and keep their shape better...
...stuffed ocelot, a stuffed owl and a stuffed boar (Serra's wife is an amateur taxidermist), bidets crammed with conch shells, beaten-up boxing gloves, and broom bristles. Of his crass menagerie, Serra says: "People didn't know whether Robert Rauschenberg's goat with a tire around it was art. Now they know. If an artist goes on making goats, though, he's hung up." Serra tries to stay loose, and designs his works to last. Says he proudly, "I take great care to glue every feather down...
...Ford, turned into the pits, the field surged across the starting line at 100 m.p.h. in neat rows of three. Suddenly, the careful symmetry became a tangle of junk. In what looked like a "dodgem" game, the track was filled with spinning, fishtailing, crashing racers. Axles and suspensions snapped, tires sailed through the air, spurts of flame from spilled fuel blossomed on the asphalt. Driver Arnie Knepper climbed from his wrecked Ford and examined a tire mark on his helmet#151;from a car that had flown over...
...months from now, we'll probably be on another kick." Your editorial of May 13 on highway safety reflects a similar vein of though. In addition, you have chosen to label Ralph Nader, one of the protagonists, as "flamboyant" and suggest that the American public will soon tire of his effort...