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...center of the track, conserving fuel and carefully steering clear of slower cars. "I spent my time," he said later, "wondering what to do with myself." Then, with only six laps left, Sachs's luck also ran out. A patch of white appeared on his right-rear tire. As he drove on, the patch rapidly widened, a sure sign that the rubber was wearing off and that a blowout was imminent. With only ten miles to go. Sachs gave up, conceded the lead to Foyt and pulled into the pits for a tire change. "There was too much canvas...
...Dishwater Test. Like the Michelin, which is underwritten by France's Michelin Tire Co., the Mobil guides are partly promotion gimmicks: Mobil frankly hopes that the books "will build our station traffic." Each guide lists local tourist attractions-many of which are so far off the beaten track that they are all but unknown to natives-as well as hotel and motel accommodations; entries duly note the distance to the nearest self-service laundry, and whether sitters are available or pets permitted. But the most important feature of each volume is the restaurant list, compiled for the most part...
Escort Salisbury is confident that the Russian journalists took something much more important than their souvenirs back to Moscow. "It's like a tire picking up bits of gravel in the tread," said he. "But in this case, the gravel is not going to work its way out. It's going to work in deeper and deeper. And that's going to remain a problem for these men all the rest of their lives...
...Auto tire...
Newly names by taxmen as Japan's biggest income earner ($860,000) in 1960, Shojiro Ishibashi, 72, president of the Bridgestone Tire Co., insists that "money accumulates when one works to serve others. It won't if one simply tries to become rich." Ishibashi (his name means "stone bridge," which he reversed to get his firm's name) took over his father's underwear factory in 1910, has made it Japan's biggest rubber goods manufacturer by such aggressive and once radical tactics as pricing his products uniformly instead of by size, and wooing peasants...