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Regular snow tires (which no longer whine) increase traction on snow-covered roads by 50%, but the scores of tiny metallic studs-protruding about one-sixteenth of an inch from the tread -increase the new tires traction on ice by at least 180% and reduce braking distance by 70%. Although many states have long-standing regulations against permanent metallic devices on tires, many others have amended their laws to permit the studs, which are designed to wear down at the same rate as the tread so as to minimize road damage. New York has just become one of a growing...
Metallic inserts in tires are not brandnew. In the early days of the automobile, motorists sometimes fastened metal nuts to the tread, producing tires that gave good traction but ripped up highways and brought on many of the early anti-metallic-tire laws. Several years ago, metallic stud tires were developed in Sweden; they have since come into widespread use in Scandinavian countries, where they constitute as much as a quarter of all tire sales...
...announced last week that they would market new models in 1965. But Detroit has always been wary, discouraged by the performance and cost of experimental models. The Holiday is thus a bold G.M. step into an area where rival U.S. automakers and even other G.M divisions have feared to tread...
...blacks of Stanleyville and Paulis are not likely soon to forget the heavy tread of the mercenaries. And it will take the whites even longer to forget or forgive the enormities committed by the Simbas. A great many of the Belgians and other whites who lived and worked in the Congo now shudder at the thought of returning. And yet, others-a surprisingly high number-have already said that after a while, they will go back, if asked. In all likelihood, they will not go in the spirit of a Paul Carlson, who once said, "In this century, more people...
...headquarters-the comfortable Ledra Palace Hotel-is located directly on the often violated Green Line dividing Greek and Turkish factions. Pasting press stickers on their car windshields, the correspondents dash in and out of the fighting zones, crossing no man's land where armed U.N. troops dare not tread. Both Turkish and Greek Cypriots welcome the press because they want to get their views before world opinion. Still, crossing the lines is tricky. "The technique," says one experienced correspondent, "is to wave something white, like a shirt or a sheet, and yell 'press' in the appropriate language...