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...17th lap, one of the three team Ferraris was already out of action. On the 64th lap, Rodriguez' V12 Ferrari prototype was hitting 150 m.p.h. when the tread peeled off a rear tire and flailed the underside of the car, smashing the battery and exhaust pipes. Ferrari mechanics slapped on a new wheel, and turned the car over to Britain's Grand Prix Champion John Surtees. But the rear axle snapped on the 116th...
Akron's major rubber companies have diversified so widely that none now derive more than 60% of their sales from tires. General Tire & Rubber Co., the smallest of Akron's Big Five in tire sales, is the most versatile of them all. It makes products as varied as missile motors, water skis and oxygen masks, owns a wrought-iron company and a bottling plant, has dipped into oceanography and water desalinization, and was recently awarded a contract by the State of California to investigate new methods of crime prevention. General has moved into so many unrelated industries that...
...Troika. General is run by three brothers, who have taken the company for its most rewarding rides on unfamiliar roads. President Michael Gerald ("Jerry") O'Neil, 43, a cool risk taker, directs the tire and other manufacturing operations in Akron, now devotes special attention to the company's missile-making arm, Aerojet-General, which has been nicked by the aerospace cutbacks. In Manhattan, Chairman Thomas O'Neil, 49, a onetime Holy Cross College football star, oversees the company's entertainment subsidiary, RKO General, and specializes in acquisitions. And John O'Neil, 47, an extraverted intellectual...
Last week it was the Americans' turn: Indonesia announced it was taking over the management of the $80 million rubber plantations in North Sumatra owned by the U.S. Rubber Co. and Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. Sukarno's spokesman insisted that U.S. ownership rights would of course continue to be "recognized." Of course...
...fight thus beginning at three of the clock, continued very terrible all that evening. The great San Philip becalmed his sailes, so huge was the Spanish ship. Who after layd the Revenge aboord. But having received the lower tire of the Revenge, shifted her selfe with all diligence, utterly misliking her first entertainement. Yet alwayes others came, so that ere the morning there had fifteene severall Armadas assayled her by eight hundred shotte of great Artillerie and the multitudes of their armed soulders, but by the Revenge were foure great Spanish shippes sunke...