Word: tilts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
...Hearst papers got a seat without applying for one. With spots reserved for U.S. News & World Report, the Chicago Tribune and a correspondent for the Nashville (Tenn.) Banner, the Greenville (S.C.) News and the Jackson (Miss.) Daily News, the press delegation seemed safe from a leftward tilt...