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When space knowhow increases, says Dr. Carl E. Snyder of Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., spacecraft may be built largely of plastics, which will fare better than metals in the hostile outer world. Snyder and W. B. Cross of Goodyear Aircraft Corp. told an Air Force space conference in Dayton that many metals "boil away" slowly in the near-perfect vacuum of space. Plastics, which are made of long molecular chains linked and tangled together, are less volatile than metals, and therefore should last longer...
Buyers' Market. The shrewd bargainer can get good discounts on 1960 autos if he finds a dealer with a hefty backlog. Cuts on 1961 "models are harder to find. They are selling too well. Goodyear is slicing its winter tire prices from 10% to more than 15% on popular sizes. American Motors was the only U.S. automaker to raise its 1961-model prices-by $10 to $60-and the Frigidaire division of General Motors announced last week that it is "holding the price line" on 1961-model appliances. Even Robert Burns took big ads to boast price cuts...
...such experience would be enough to tire the average light-heavyweight longshoreman, but Skelton does it-and needs it-night after night in clubs, week after week on television. While that feared acetylene torch called overexposure has singed, seared or crisped one comedian after another, Red Skelton's popularity has never really stopped growing. At 47 he is the only comedian left on TV who has, year in and year out, sustained a live weekly program, and this week The Red Skelton Show (CBS) begins its seventh season, during which he will also do two specials...
...deserve a gold medal for the moving and entertaining cover story on Rafer Johnson and tire 1960 Summer Olympics...
Died. William Francis O'Neil, 75, rugged, restless founder in 1915 and president until last April of the diversified industrial giant, The General Tire & Rubber Co.; of a heart ailment; in Akron, Ohio. A onetime worker in his father's Akron department store and later a Kansas City Firestone dealer, "W.O." O'Neil boosted General into the rubber industry's "Big Five" before branching in the 19405 into radio (as a sounding board to blast the United Rubber Workers) and rocketry (after a son was lost when a World War II rescue plane was unable...