Word: tiring
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...read your fine Essay, "Why Cars Must-and Can-Be Made Safer" [April 1] on the day we won Senate passage of a historic tire safety bill. I congratulate you for a thorough analysis of this emotion-filled issue without repeating the cliché that a safe car would look like a Sherman tank. There is an awakening interest in this issue in both houses of Congress. A number of us will continue fighting for safe cars; we appreciate your help...
Pirelli considers business looks so good that he has to "stamp down" his optimism. "In cable production, our group leads the world." Among Europe's tire and rubber goods producers, Pirelli is "about equal with Michelin." Worldwide, Pirelli acknowledged, his group is far behind such giants as Goodyear and Firestone, but that didn't seem to bother him. He does not intend to in vade their home markets in the U.S.; and therefore, "in the main, it will be a battle between our subsidiaries and their subsidiaries in specific markets, and in many cases our branches will...
...sunken ship. He set up a factory on the site of the present Milan skyscraper headquarters, and from there Pirelli grew to be Italy's fourth largest company. Giovanni's son Alberto helped sponsor the Peking-to-Paris auto expedition in 1907 as a promotion for Pirelli tires. Alberto also took a ride in Orville Wright's plane in Paris in 1908 and thus became the first Italian to fly. In 1917, when a Pirelli engineer patented an oil-insulated cable that could safely handle far more than the then limit of 33,000 volts, the company...
...best measure of good theatre. And it isn't as if Earnest presents no pitfalls to void. The Agassiz production, in fact, sidesteps one of them a little too closely. Wilde's jokes can easily be over-exploited, with the result that you laugh hard at the outset, but tire around the middle when the characters become little more than the jokes they spout. It is rather like watching a star-studded cast and not being able to forget who they...
...Defense and State departments-that U.S. military power in Viet Nam has convinced Red China's leaders that they face a "long-drawn-out war." Indeed, said Halperin, Peking has now "urged on the Viet Cong the need to adopt a strategy of survival until the American invaders tire of the war and withdraw." China's leaders, he told the committee, are well aware that a U.S. nuclear attack would devastate their "modernized sector" and are determined not to provoke...