Word: tiring
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...time the 500 was 20 laps old, 13 of 43 cars were out of the race with shattered engines, blown tires and assorted malfunctions. Dieringer's Mercury hit a piece of metal and shredded a tire. When he got rolling on all four again, the fight was between Marvin Panch and Fred Lorenzen, both driving new Fords...
...director who programs an entire evening of a capella men's singing risks having the absence of variety spoil his effort. To program on top of that the music of a single country is to court danger, since the audience could tire as easily of the similarity of style. It is therefore fortunate that Russian music was put to such a test Friday night at Sanders Theatre. The Church music, with its full harmonies and low basses, stands in such contrast to the soldiers' songs, love ballads, and haunting Cossack melodies that there was sufficient variation to sustain the audience...
Pepsi-Cola is negotiating with at least four satellite countries, and both Firestone Tire & Rubber and Universal Oil Products will build major plants in Rumania. Hardly a week goes by without the announcement of a new trade agreement between a Western nation and a member of the East bloc, typically for double the amount of previous trade. Last year commerce between East and West soared to $9 billion-a 100% jump in seven years. In his State of the Union address, President Johnson asked the nation to explore new ways "to increase peaceful trade" with Communist countries-a goal that...
...planners a knitwear plant ordered to produce 80,000 caps and sweaters naturally produced only caps: they were smaller and thus cheaper and quicker to make. A factory commanded to make lamp shades made them all orange, since sticking to one color kept the assembly line uncomplicated. Tire production one year was fixed without checking the plan for motor-vehicle output. Taxi drivers were put on a bonus system based on mileage, and soon the Moscow suburbs were full of empty taxis barreling down the boulevards to fatten their bonuses...
...range of realty ventures is kaleidoscopic. Weyerhaeuser, the timber giant, is converting its forest holdings in five states into summer homes, lakefront recreation centers and even such ski resorts as Crystal Village, 76 miles from Seattle. Goodyear Tire & Rubber recently set aside $5,000,000 to speed the transformation of 14,000 acres of its property near Phoenix into Litchfield Park, which it hopes will become a satellite city of 90,000 people by 1985. Great Lakes Carbon Corp. is busy with six projects, ranging from a Houston industrial park to a resort and retirement center in Portugal. Hearst Corp...