Word: mild
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...judges, of course, faced a mild dilemma when prize-giving time came around. How does one criticize a film made by one's host, particularly when that host happens to be the Chief of State? But in splendid Asian fashion, a decision that satisfied everyone was reached. Prizes were given out to entries from Japan, North Viet Nam, Canada and the National Liberation Front. And the Grand Prize? It went to The Little Prince, produced, directed and written...
...constitutional wisdom of the Electoral College has been proved again. The specter of forcing an election into the Congress is mild if compared with the crisis we would face in a close election based on popular vote. Recounts, absentee ballots, and other less legitimate vote juggling in close precincts would keep an election in doubt for months. The Electoral College isn't perfect, but it's usually decisive. And if it fails, I'd rather trust Congress than Cook County...
Broad Backs. Though an unabashed paean to the mystique of pro football, the movie performs a mild disservice to the athletes themselves. Plimpton wrote of football players as sensitive people, worried about injuries and the challenge of younger, faster rookies, fearful of the day when the team could no longer use them, always inwardly satisfied by the crisp precision of a well-executed play. The Lions, playing themselves with obvious relish in the film, live up to the unfortunate image that the public expects-cretinous, backslapping behemoths...
...front runner so far is a vaccine named HPV-77 by the virologists who developed it in the Federal Government's Division of Biologies Standards. This has already been tested on more than 20,000 persons and satisfies the three main requirements: 1) although it causes a mild rash in a few vaccinated children, it has no serious side effects; 2) it produces good antibody levels, and therefore immunity, in more than 90% of those vaccinated; 3) the weakened virus in the vaccine does not spread to people who come into contact with those who receive...
Junior Erik Roth, a mild disappointment in last Friday's Dartmouth meet, will also be closely watched today. If he has shaken his injuries and related conditioning problems, Roth could bounce back to the early-season form that saw him in fifth position against Northeastern...