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...Tire Talons. For better traction, faster starts and safer stops on icy roads, B. F. Goodrich Co. brought out a truck tire with 5,000 tiny steel claws embedded in the tread. The steel will last almost the life of the tread, says Goodrich, and will result in only negligible road damage. Price: about 10% above regular truck tires...
Sturdy Stopper. Virginia's Highway Commission has bought 10,000 plastic traffic signs from General Tire & Rubber Co. for use on its roads. Lighter and tougher than steel, yet only one-eighth to one-tenth inch thick, the plastic signs withstand the attacks of man and nature better than metal ones...
...motorcade, escorted by 100 Indonesian cops and guarded all along its route by scores of Tommy-gunners, swerved to a halt in the guerrilla-infested jungle of central Java when a sedan bearing Vice President Richard Nixon blew a tire. A trifle shaken, Nixon hurriedly joined his wife Patricia in another car, was soon on his way again...
...echoes of autobiography. Novelist Gordimer has not yet learned how to bring characters to life, but she has skill in fitting words together and in expressing nuances of emotion. What she has to say may not be new, but she says it well and men of good will never tire of hearing...
PREDICTED John T. Blake, a top rubber chemist: "With the new isocyanate rubbers [made from fatty acids and alcohol-type compounds] and with the new fabrics and reinforcement fibers . . . the lifetime tire is not far away . . . [with] colored rubbers that may be as tough as black compounds are today...