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Conservative Coloration. As of this week, the outlook is for a Republican pickup of 22 seats. That would give the 91st Congress a Democratic edge of 226 Democrats to 209 Republicans. It would also give the House a more conservative tilt, making it more hostile to foreign aid than even the pinch-penny 90th, more sympathetic to defense appropriations, less anxious to enact fresh domestic programs, more eager to transfer federal projects to state and local control...
...Wallace vote is expected to hurt Nixon, as is anticipated support for Humphrey from the state's astute Governor John McKeithen. North Carolina is one state where Wallace is expected to do as much damage to the Democratic as to the Republican candidate. But the black vote should tilt it Humphrey...
...four wheels on each segment remain firmly planted on the ground, even as the Twister crosses the crest of a small hill. The fore and aft sections are powered by two independent 140-h.p. air-cooled Corvair engines, modified so that they can operate even at a sharp tilt. The driver pilots the eight-wheel-drive vehicle from the rear body. He has at his disposal a steering post for the lead wheels and twin seven-position gear levers for the two automatic transmissions...
...recently exhibited a series of canvases that show nothing but bricks, forming endless cells or piled in heaps that stretch away to infinity. Their dreamlike, surreal character is conveyed by Liebmann's adroit deviations from strict perspective. The bricks at the upper edges of his canvases do not tilt in toward the vanishing point in the center as much as they should. Thus Liebmann creates the impression of an infinitely expanding sterile waste. The bricks also suggest the relentless monotony and cubicled isolation of big-city living, where, in Liebmann's opinion, "we've built barriers around...
Falling Walls. Van Erp, alas, reconstructed the temple on filled land. Even before he was finished, walls began to tilt. Fungi, salt and moss set in, and in the 1950s archaeologists found that water seeping down through the temple was threatening its very foundation. Pleas for funds went out, but Borobudur once again fell victim, this time to political upheavals...