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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...polyester cord in 1962. Last week the company's latest creation was introduced: a polyester and fiber-glass tire, which will be sold as a replacement for original equipment tires and is said by the company to have twice their lifetime. More expensive than the originals ($51 v. $34), the "Polyglas" brand will hit the market at the time tire replacements are being sought for cars acquired during the 1965-1966 sales boom...
...public has shown a mounting interest not only in mutual funds but also in individually selected securities and even ordinary (but interest-yielding) savings accounts. As a result, life insurers have been drawing an ever smaller share of the average American's savings dollar - only 19% in 1966 v...
...those creations of British Designer Colin Chapman that have made such proud marques as Ferrari and Maserati alsorans on the Grand Prix circuit. In place of the familiar old Coventry Climax engine (originally designed to power a fire-engine water pump), the Lotus 49 boasts a brand-new V-8 Ford-Cosworth engine that may well give Ford a Grand Prix championship to go with the victories it has already won at Indianapolis, Le Mans and on the stock-car circuit. Constructed mainly of aluminum, with a single-plane crankshaft (instead of the usual V-8 two-plane shaft) that...
...called an exhaust-manifold reactor. Developed by Du Pont over the past two years, the reactor system would replace the regular manifold unit on U.S. vehicles. It consists of two 4½-in. by 22-in. alloy-coated stainless-steel cylinders that fit over the sides of a standard V-8 engine. (Only one reactor is required for a six-cylinder model.) As high-temperature exhaust gases flow into the reactors, air is blown into them by a small pump, causing a more complete burning of the fumes. Reduced in hydrocarbons and carbon monoxide as a result, the vapors...
...handiwork of a remarkable general contractor: Manhattan's Tishman Realty & Construction Co. Long prominent as a builder and manager of its own apartments and offices, Tishman has spread not only into building for others but into research and consulting, fields where few construction firms venture. Explains President Robert V. Tishman: "I got tired of seeing everybody else grabbing up our ideas-for nothing...