Word: mildly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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FAHRENHEIT 451. Ray Bradbury's somber tale about a futuristic society that burns books has been reworked by France's Francois Truffaut into a mild, gay little film starring Oskar Werner and Julie Christie as two 21st century "radicals...
...finger to pass between the bandage and the limb. Then a dash to the hospital, where antivenom is given after the surgery. If a hunter is hours away from a hospital, he may even be able to perform the emergency surgery himself, because snake venom acts as a mild local anesthetic and leaves the bite area numb...
...piece on the follies of human egotism ("The Day I Became a Genius"). The humorous musings of an amateur athlete ("Boxing and Me-the Boxer"). The details on an experimental camera that can shoot film in any light range ("Camera! Action!-What, No Lights?"). And sprinkled throughout are some mild little jokes that carry no sting...
...action may well have signaled a mild easing of tensions between the two countries. There have also been other signs of a thaw. Though the U.S.'s six-year-old trade embargo remains in effect, Washington recently modified its ban on travel to Cuba and announced that U.S. citizens may now get passports to visit the island for "cultural" and business reasons-provided that the Czechoslovakian embassy, Castro's diplomatic go-between in the U.S., agrees to issue a visa...
...oldest of five children of Norwegian immigrants who settled in Stoughton, Wis., Romnes is so soft-spoken and persuasive an executive that colleagues sometimes refer to him as "the Mild Viking." But the Viking has a firm hand when necessary, and he may need it as he steers A.T. & T. through some rough sailing. Through 23 subsidiary companies, A.T. & T. controls 85% of all U.S. telephone communications, most long-distance operations, and an increasing share of the fast-growing data-transmission business. It remains a private monopoly largely because of rate accommodations with the Federal Communications Commission and with...