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...years the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. has tenaciously held its place as the world's largest rubber company. Since there is no company on the scene that seems likely to overtake it soon, Goodyear has looked for its challenges elsewhere. With 98,000 employees-one of the largest work forces in the nation-it now turns out more than 30,000 products, from myriad rubber goods to such unexpected items as airplane brakes, radar systems, missile liners and plastic film used to package anything from oleomargarine to cigars. As if this were not enough, the Pentagon this week will...
...best stories. In "The Glendale People," a once-glamourous globetrotter finds himself at last in a Florida development surrounded by the very people he has spent a lifetime avoiding-"married couples from the Middle West," he says sneeringly, "who had come to save money on overcoats and tire chains." Desperately he rallies his glittering memories to prove that what he has seen and done has made him different...
Russell R. De Young, president, Goodyear Tire & Rubber...
...clams; in Connecticut genuine antiques may lawfully be sold, but not reproductions. The New York blue law code is particularly messy. Bars may open at 1 p.m., but baseball games may not begin until 2 p.m. It is legal to sell fruits but not vegetables, an automobile tire but not a tire jack, tobacco but not a pipe. It is unlawful to sell butter or cooked meat after 10 a.m., except that delicatessens may sell these foods between...
Open play and hard running during the first half may wear Boston down. They have the edge on Harvard in experience, but the Crimson banks on their getting tired. (The average Boston Rugger's age is only 29.) Toward the end of the game, when they tire and become lax on defense, pressure will bear down...