Word: tiring
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...battle royal between the Marine Commandos' motorcycle team and that movie prop of the century, James Bond's well-armed Aston Martin DB5. The Bondmobile, piloted by a U.S. racing driver, cornered so closely that it fluttered the bunting in front of the box seats and left tire rubber all over the arena-which was also littered with cartridge shells from the mock...
...weekly newspaper column, and in a new book, to be serialized by Playboy magazine called Freedom When. Farmer's answer is "not very soon." That's one reason why in the Negro's long struggle for freedom, CORE is lucky to have a man in command who doesn't tire of the battle...
...clients. Sperry & Hutchinson, which reported a 5% increase in first-half sales, also had a 29% jump in sales of stamps to 4,000 corporations, including Westinghouse, RCA and Du Pont. The stamps are used as incentives for salesmen or safety awards for workers; in case U.S. women tire of trading stamps, the industry may turn...
...sidetrack. There the car broke down. They were 50 miles from the nearest town, and the temperature was 124°. With something like a genius for self-preservation, the Scotts drank the water from their car radiator, cut up blankets to make an S O S sign, dipped a tire in engine oil to serve as a signal fire, dismounted the car mirror to flash distress signals at passing planes, set out their hubcaps to catch the morning dew. They smeared lipstick on sunburn blisters and swollen lips, discovered some wax crayons and a pot of glue (made from milk...
Died. Jesse William Shields, 78, one of the U.S. rubber industry's most inventive engineers, who directed physical research first at Goodyear and later at Firestone, in 1932 conceived a low-pressure pneumatic tractor tire that proved a major boon to farming, during World War II developed hard-rubber tracks for U.S. and British tanks, and a foam plastic float used to transport vehicles ashore in the Okinawa landing; of chronic lung disease; in Wilmington...