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...disaster, for one thing: A. J. Foyt, Rodger Ward and Parnelli Jones crashed in practice, and if the three top Indy veterans couldn't control their cars, what could be expected from the eleven green rookies in the race? There was the Great Tire War between Firestone and Goodyear (TIME, May 28), and the knock-down Battle of the Enginemakers between Ford, which entered its first Memorial Day 500 just two years ago, and Offenhauser, which had ruled the Brickyard for 18 straight years...
Chunking Quarters. Then there was the Great Tire War. Since 1923 every 500 winner has used Firestone tires, a fact that nettles Firestone's competitors no end-especially The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. This year, Goodyear persuaded nine drivers to use its tires, including two of the three fastest qualifiers: A. J. Foyt and California's Dan Gurney, who won a spot in the first row by clocking 159 m.p.h. in yet another Lotus-Ford. Last week the company discovered to its horror that its specially made tires were "chunking"-spewing out quarter-size pieces of rubber. Goodyear...
...both Foyt and Gurney faced the choice of making repeated pit stops for tire changes-or risking blowouts and accidents. For Foyt, there was no choice at all. "Racing comes before my wife and family," he said, and a friend added: "A. J. would run with one wheel on top of the wall if he had to-to beat Jimmy Clark." Scotland's Clark, naturally, was unaffected by the fuss. There he was, smack-dab in the middle of the front row-with Firestones...
...longer than its namesake, the U.S.A.F.'s new variable-winged jet fighter-bomber. The painting is made up of 51 panels, some aluminum, and uses a side view of the jet as a background for a grab bag of contemporary images in phosphorescent Dayglo colors-a Firestone tire, an umbrella superimposed on a nuclear mushroom cloud, giant light bulbs, a beaming six-year-old under the chrome busby of a hair dryer-all executed in Rosenquist's precise realistic style...
Afternoons in the Plant. The list of well-known sons who have been successes is long, includes Kaiser Industries' Edgar F. Kaiser, 56, Douglas Aircraft's Donald W. Douglas Jr., 47, and General Tire's Michael G. O'Neil, 43, who runs his father's firm in a kind of triumvirate with Brothers Thomas, 49, and John, 47. One of the recent comers is Howard Johnson, 32, who took over complete control of the restaurant and motel chain when his father retired last year. He has increased the number of restaurants, quintupled the motel business...