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With Measured Tread...
Beyond Lawsuits. It began one pitchy night when a brawny gang of eleven swarmed with catlike tread into the cabins of Radio City, one of the smaller pirate stations located in a renovated wartime lookout in the Thames Estuary. The marauders surprised the seven sleeping disk jockeys and technicians, who surrendered without a struggle and allowed them to cut the station off the air. Leaving nine men to hold the fort, their leader, Major Oliver Smedley, 54, a bemedaled World War II paratrooper, former Liberal Party vice president and director of twelve companies, sailed back to shore...
Warning Signs. Led by Goodrich and Goodyear, tiremakers this fall will introduce "the wear bar," a device adapted from aircraft tires, which have a red cord imbedded in the rubber to show when the tread is becoming worn. In auto tires, small portions of the tread will be cut one-sixteenth of an inch less deep than the rest of the grooves, and will show up as bald spots when the tire needs replacing...
...layers of cord in a tire are set at 30° angles to one another, forming a diamond pattern around the wheel, but in a radial tire the cords are at 90° angles, forming a pattern of crosses. With this structure, the faster a car goes, the more tread is slapped onto the ground. The result is better road grip and up to 100% longer tread life-but also a harder ride. The tires are costly: about $50 each...
...large part of this responsibility falls upon the Cambridge government and the newly-formed Cambridge Corporation. And perhaps one way they can tread the delicate line (but only one way) is by launching a general program to create more lower and middle income housing in the City. Whether or not the Belt finally comes, Cambridge clearly needs such additional housing. A sustained drive (beyond the projected impact of the Innr Belt) to provide it would be more effective than a simple relocation campaign and simultaneously remove any pro-Belt stigma...