Word: mild
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last year 23 new industries set up shop under Jamaica's tax incentive program, and both Alcoa and Reynolds Metals Co. have launched multimillion-dollar expansions. Despite a mild recession, Jamaica is also off to a good start on an ambitious five-year development plan. The government will spend $255 million on housing, schools, roads and land improvement. To increase farm output, Bustamante will slap heavy taxes on idle fields and buy up uncultivated lands to distribute to peasant families at a rate of 10,500 acres per year...
...bank at gunpoint. The punishment: 3½ years in prison, which is a gentler sentence than he would probably have received if he were found guilty by a U.S. military court. Pentagon spokesmen testifying before a Senate subcommittee reported that U.S. servicemen tried in foreign courts tend to get mild sentences. Japan has even built a special prison for U.S. prisoners, with much more comfortable accommodations than those provided for Japanese convicts...
...manpower shortage is relatively mild in the metropolitan press, but among the nation's small-city dailies, it is nothing short of critical. Traditionally, the little daily got first crack at the fledgling newsman, who found it difficult to start anywhere but at the bottom, and who knew, besides, that he could learn the ropes faster there. Now, however, the new man with any promise at all can bypass a humble apprenticeship. He does not have to start at the bottom-and seldom does...
...from campus politicos. He was a member of the Catholic Club four years and attended church services regularly. He never joined the Young Democrats and attended hardly any political meetings at all. In Winthrop his room-mates were athletes and his conversation seldom touched politics, although he did give mild support to Roosevelt. In letters to his father he backed Joseph Kennedy's approval of Neville Chamberlain but he did not speak much about this to his friends...
...Author-News Commentator Lowell Thomas, 71, in Detroit's Henry Ford Hospital in satisfactory condition after a mild heart attack; Actor Anthony Perkins, 31, for three days, after he sprained his ankle while chasing through the woods with Brigitte Bardot during the filming of Une Ravissante Idiote near Paris; Ballplayboy Bo Belinsky, 26, for a day, after breaking his nose in two places when his surfboard rose up and clobbered him off Waikiki...