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Leftist university students and tin miners, long a source of violent demonstrations and strikes, have not taken to the streets in months. Political opposition has quieted down. Barrientos even strengthened his hand with the army by personally flying into the battle zone half a dozen times, sometimes only minutes after the latest action. On one visit, according to an entry in Che Guevara's diary, Barrientos' helicopter set down only 250 yards from the spot where the guerrilla leader was hidden. "The important thing was that we had the support of the people," says Barrientos, a former...
...Chicago and Cleveland; it owns more office space (5,775,000 sq. ft.) than the total available in Denver, Atlanta or Kansas City. The buildings win few prizes for design; architects still wisecrack that Tishman's aluminum-skinned skyscraper at 666 Fifth Avenue in mid-Manhattan is "the tin can that the Seagram Building came in." The company has $857 million worth of buildings going up, under contract or planned...
...tattered, canvas tents that once billowed across the South Lebanese val ley near Saida (modern Sidon) have long since rotted away, and in their place the residents of Ein el Hilweh have built a Mediterranean Hooverville of plaster-sided shacks whose tin roofs clatter in the chill winter wind. The Arabs who occupy the camp are Palestinian refugees, who were assigned their 25 flat, barren acres by the United Nations after the Israeli army had driven them from their homes in north ern Palestine. The first of the homeless arrived there in 1947 just before Christmas. As their numbers swelled...
...scoured off 20% of the finished glass, and something better was needed. In 1959, after seven years and $20 million worth of research, Pilkington announced a float process for making sheet and plate glass that revolutionized the industry. In it, glass forms while floating on a surface of molten tin, and there is no need to polish it afterward. Float glass, moreover, has less distortion than glass made by earlier processes...
...produce tints-even with a float process-they either had to shut down and convert regular lines or else build an additional plant. Under the new method, which cost $2.8 million to research and perfect, machines bombard the molten glass with microscopic metallic particles as it passes across the tin bath. With an investment of only $36,000, glassmakers can add the tinting process to a regular plant, color as much as desired bt the continuous ribbon of glass. Says Sir Harry Pilkington, 62, chairman of the 141-year-old family-owned company: "We already knew that our float process...