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Despite the clear conservative tilt in the Midwest, voters sometimes went the other way in their desire to shake things up. In Michigan they chose Democrat Carl Levin, 44, former president of the Detroit city council and a party regular, over Republican Senator Robert Griffin, a skillful parliamentarian and his party's Senate whip. At the same time, Michigan's voters stuck with an able Republican Governor, William Milliken, 56, despite a harsh campaign against him by Democrat William Fitzgerald, who even blamed Milliken for a public scare over Michigan farmers' use of the controversial pesticide PBB. Replied Milliken during...
...Anglo-American plan pieced together by U.N. ambassador Andrew Young and British Foreign Secretary David Owen. The plan marks an attempt by the British to atone for their weak-willed opposition to Smith's "colonial rebellion," and by the U.S. to undo the effects of the Nixon administration's "tilt" toward the apartheid states in the early '70s. Unfortunately, it calls for the participation of Nkomo and Mugabe in negotiations for a political settlement, a proposition which could precipitate bloody civil war between the Front and domestic black groups after the fall of Smith. There is enmity between Nkomo...
Harvard, now 4-9-1, played Brown even for 87 minutes of their 90-minute tilt two weekends ago, and last Friday night Harvard busted out of its scoring doldrums with a 3-0 blanking of Penn. Coach George Ford is likely to continue with a three-man front line led by Diaz and Mauro Keller-Sarmiento and to start Lee Nelson at midfield once again...
...believed in discipline, and discipline began with himself. He knew his mind. He made quick decisions and stuck to them. Confronted with a problem, a plea, an argument-he always allowed room for argument-he would tilt back in his swivel chair, eyes on the ceiling, hands clasped behind his head...
...some of the world's ruggedest mountain terrain, to no ultimate military purpose. On a windswept turret of the wall completed in 214 B.C., in a 500-year-old pavilion of the Forbidden City or Soochow's leaning Tiger Hill Pagoda (it has a 3¾° tilt), the visitor is not so much awed as numbed. Who were-and are - the people who could construct such fantasies? What else have they wrought? Are there other such marvels and monstrosities to be seen or expected? The Foreign Friend, as he is designated today, faces the same quandary that...