Word: mild
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...teams and the third for more free student parking space? In fact student riots in the "home of the brave" are now incomparable to the purposeful demonstrations of far-off lands. Harvard University, for example, has yielded two major demonstrations during this past decade (both, of course, in the mild weather of late spring) when students mutinied in 1952 for "Pogo for President" and in 1961 for retaining Latin-inscribed diplomas...
Third, as for the patronizing remarks about our riots taking place "in the mild weather of late spring," tell us, Mr. Publisher, what better time is there for a riot...
...days after the election, Diefenbaker announced a program of mild austerity at home and a massive borrowing from abroad, claiming that the crisis had become serious "only in very recent days.'' The U.S., Britain and the International Monetary Fund threw a line of credit and a loan for $1.05 billion. To cap his program, Diefenbaker slapped surcharges atop Canada's tariffs-in effect, punishing the neighbors that had bailed Canada out. But the flighty capital returned, and Canada's economy-aided by devaluation on the one hand and high tariffs on the other-turned...
...result of its citizens' almost an archic individualism. Houston is probably the nation's most lightly governed big city. Property taxes are enviably mild, and the city relies heavily on private initiative and philanthropy to provide public facilities. Houston's only sizable public park is a gift from a rich donor. Much of the money for the city's lavish new medical center came from private contributions. Rice University, one of the Southwest's best educational institutions, is a privately supported, tuition-free school with a $70 million endowment...
...mild-mannered Toshio Inoue, 62, chairman of the Tokyo Stock Exchange, there was nothing inscrutable about last week's dizzy stock-buying splurge in Japan. Said Inoue, unruffled: "The bull market is here to stay for some time, and considering the circumstances, I believe it is natural." After a long career in banking-he was vice governor of the Bank of Japan before becoming exchange chairman in 1961-Inoue himself had a hand in one of the most immediate circumstances causing the market's hyperactivity. As he advised, the government lifted all restrictions on the repatriation of investments...