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...beginner: confused, exited anticipation of sore hands and awkwardness carry him through the frustrations of a flat tire and an elusive leaky tube when, three hours after departure time, he is still stranded in a Cambridge garage...

Author: By Robert E. Fulton iii, | Title: Froma Skier's Journal | 3/24/1961 | See Source »

...General Electric, and General Tire Corp. out as being particularly guilty. In addition, said large press companies, such as Time-Life and , toned down attacks against defense policies publications and all but prohibited adverse comment radio-TV stations...

Author: By Joseh M. Russin, | Title: Says Defense Facts Hushed, Predicts Defeat of School Aid Bill | 3/22/1961 | See Source »

...They kept the octosyllabic line, the often complicated rhyme scheme, and, most important, the delightfully naive ironies and anachorisms of the original. And even I, who barely understood French 20 lectures, could make out nearly every line. The lines that I didn't understand all came in a few tire-some and unnecessary scenes, full of argot about crap shooting and in-group references to the towns around Arras, which only the natives could understand. These scenes, despite some fine comic acting, bog down the middle of the play, and should have been...

Author: By Allan Katz, | Title: Le Jeu de Saint Nicolas | 3/4/1961 | See Source »

...TIRE PRICES were cut $1 to $4 by Firestone. Company hopes to effectively counter discount-house competition by dropping tire prices to lowest level since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Dec. 5, 1960 | 12/5/1960 | See Source »

...gamy days of the 1920s can find echoes of the Prohibition Era in present-day India. As the members of India's Central Prohibition Committee met last week in New Delhi, the capital around them went its merry alcoholic way. In private apartments converted into speakeasies, tired Delhi businessmen sipped beer at 10 rupees ($2) a bottle. In Connaught Circus, the heart of town, young spivs sold paper bags containing liquor, soda and ice. A man walking along with a bicycle tire over his shoulder might be on his way to fix a flat, but it was just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Looking Backward | 11/28/1960 | See Source »

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