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Thus Bolivia's leftward tilt revealed to the world the accelerating momentum of a major trend in Latin America. A year ago, when he launched his government of "revolutionary nationalism," Ovando cast himself as a general of the left. He courted the same loose coalition of students, workers, and young, socially oriented military officers that Bolivia's flamboyant General René Barrientos had used as a power base during his regime. Ovando brought left-wing intellectuals into his Cabinet, expropriated the holdings of American-owned Bolivian Gulf Oil Co., and gave Communist labor leaders free reign...
...marginal-won by 5% or less of the total vote m the last election. Obey squeaked through with a mere 51.5% in a 1969 special election to choose a successor to Melvin Laird, who had resigned to become Secretary of Defense. It is in such close races that the tilt of the next House of Representatives will be determined...
...getting him into film. Though the BBC was outraged at being passed over, Lord Snowdon says: "It was important that I should be asked to do my first film by an entirely private firm with no state money behind it." That way, he feels, no one could cry tilt...
...foot, carrying their belongings in a kerchief or a cardboard suitcase. One day, their quest for affluence in the cold and often inhospitable north may be looked upon as one of the great social movements of the 1960s and '70s. Already, they have given Europe a "northward tilt" comparable to the westward tilt that the U.S. has experienced since World War II. But unlike the California-bound Americans, and unlike European emigrants of the past, the migrants in northern Europe have never really unpacked their bags. Strangers to the last, they pinch their pennies, save as much...
...engineering. Each heliostat is controlled by its own photoelectric cells. Whenever one of the hehostats (each of which is made 180 individual mirrors) loses its lock on the sun, these tiny electric eyes inform a minicomputer, which in turn controls a pair of hydraulic pumps that can rotate and tilt the heliostat into th proper position. Only one manual ad justment is needed to operate the heliostats. It is made at the end of the day, when they must be reset to face the position of the next day's sunrise...