Word: mild
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Scribbled Notes. Eichmann sat grey-faced and haggard through the details. Occasionally, he seemed to have difficulty breathing. His attorney, Dr. Robert Servatius, reported that Eichmann has suffered two mild heart attacks during the trial, but the government-appointed doctor says he has only an arrhythmia (an irregular pulse) caused by nervous tension. When he was accused of having beaten to death the Jewish boy, Eichmann furiously scribbled notes to his lawyer; his mouth twitched, and he ran his tongue over his teeth. At times, his facial tics seemed uncontrollable. He has obviously lost weight, and his pale blue eyes...
...Derby, with only mild urging from Sellers ("I just shook the stick at him"), Carry Back made up 20 lengths to come home three-quarters of a length in front of Crozier. In the Preakness, (see cuts), Carry Back was bumped by a couple of horses as he broke from the gate, fell back to last place, 14 lengths behind Globemaster. "I was plenty worried," says Jockey Sellers. "He scared the willies out of me because the track has sharp turns, and it's hard to make up lost ground. But I think he disliked all that dirt flying...
...United States, tolerated, and even supported, this despotism, on the inexcusable grounds, that whatever else he did, Trujillo opposed Communism. It is fortunate indeed that this country began, within the last year, to pull away from its friendship with Trujillo. The severing of economic relations and the imposing of mild economic sanctions may not seems like much; they were enough to turn Trujillo toward his bitter enemy Fidel Castro. The fact remains, however, that Washington did nothing to unseat Trujillo. Moreover, the Dominicans have not forgotten that United States Marines occupied the country from 1916 to 1924, ruling with what...
...mound. Pitcher Mike Hanes. 10, wound up and threw a soft, slow curve. As Barry turned to swing, the ball hit him on the chest. The youngster dropped his bat, staggered backward, collapsed in the arms of Umpire Al Millham. and died. Improbably, the mild impact had stopped Barry's heart. Pitcher Hanes collapsed in hysterics. But like so many Little League parents, grief-stricken Jack Babcock showed a stubborn concern for the game. "I hope this doesn't curtail Little League ball," said Babcock. "Barry wouldn't want that. He loved baseball more than anything...
Died. Ralf Torngren, 62, Finland's Foreign Minister since 1959, a mild-mannered peacemaker who, as Premier for five months in 1954 and Foreign Minister under two other governments, helped his nation preserve its precarious neutrality; of a heart attack; in Turku, Finland...