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With the largest auto population in the world, the U.S. travels on rubber-and each wheel means a sale for some tire manufacturer. The fight to make that sale has led to one of the biggest price wars in years. The main weapon in the war is a new, low-priced tire known in the trade as a "cheapie," which sells for as little as $6.95 v. about $25 for a standard quality name-brand tire. The stakes are big: the tire industry sells some $3 billion worth of tires a year. The contestants are many: more than 115 brands...
There are nearly two million automobiles on college campuses, reports the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company. They are driven by 44% of the country's 4.5 million undergraduates...
...such noises shattered the sleep of the pioneers a century or more ago. But the tire screech of a hard-braked auto mobile is probably no more disturbing than the howl of a timber wolf rallying the pack. And no American today need lie awake worrying whether the soft fluting of a small owl is really the signal that a band of Indians is closing in for a scalping spree...
...rest of regulation time and during the first ten-minute sudden death overtime period, Harvard maintained a terrific pace. B.U. kept up during the third period, but began to tire in the overtime. Only great saves by Ferreira on Treadwell and Bill Fryer kept the Terriers in the game...
JAMES ROSENQUIST-Green, 15 West 57th. This former billboard painter is quite accustomed to seeing and painting things larger than life: his latest three-dimensional work is unfortunately a gross exaggeration. The flat canvases with their toothy grins and giant tire treads had more shock; his newest "new realism" suffers from artificiality. Through Feb. 8. Down the street at Janis, 15 East 57th, Rosenquist, Jim Dine, George Segal and Claes Oldenburg create "Four Environments." Each artist has a room of his own: Oldenburg, for example, a bedroom, Segal a movie theater. Through...