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Bark Is Worse. In Auburn, Me., after being told by an angry motorcyclist that a dog had bitten his tire, Policeman Robert Vaillancourt investigated, pigeonholed the complaint when he discovered that the dog was toothless...
Frightening Situation. Moss is at his best in the tire-tearing duels on the corners, where drivers must rapidly downshift from speeds of 160 m.p.h. to 60 m.p.h. and below, then shift up again. Says Moss: "The thing to remember is that it is the speed with which you come out of the corner that matters. If you come out of a corner five miles an hour faster than any other man, you've got a big advantage going into the straight...
Died. Harvey Samuel Firestone III, 30, an heir and only son of Board Chairman Harvey S. Firestone Jr. of the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co.; of a fall (ruled suicide by a Cuban judge ) from the 20th floor of the Havana Hilton Hotel. A spastic cerebral palsy victim, Firestone graduated from law school last year, had planned to practice in St. Petersburg, where he and his wife and daughter made their home...
When Brinkley drifted to tiny Milford, Kansas in 1917, his assets were a sheepskin from the Eclectic Medical University of Kansas City (a diploma mill), a membership in the Masons, and a Saxon Six automobile. Then a rustic came to Brinkley with the complaint that he was a "flat tire," sexually inert. Somehow, Brinkley hit on the idea of implanting a fragment of goat gonad in the old fellow's testicles. He did, and before long the patient had recuperated to the extent that he was able to sire a healthy son-a lad named, appropriately enough, Billy...
After ramrodding General Tire for 45 years, W.O. is not ready to retire. That was not the import of last week's shifts. While Jerry gets his feet wet in the presidency, his father will still be around asking questions like "Why the hell aren't you fellows making more money...