Word: mildly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tactful Transfer. Still, red-haired Green is a tough, talented envoy who thrives on contrasts and postings where U.S. influence is, to put it mildly, mild. He underwent his apprenticeship as personal secretary to the late, gallant U.S. Ambassador to Japan, Joseph Clark Grew (TIME, June 4, 1965) during the last stormy days before Pearl Harbor. As officer in charge of the U.S. embassy in Seoul in 1961, when General Chung Hee Park unseated the democratically elected President John Chang, Green outspokenly opposed the unconstitutionality of the new government, after which the State Department tactfully transferred him to Hong Kong...
...MATERIALS: In a $660 billion economy, the mild and manageable defense demands are not nearly great enough to require allotments or rationing. If need be, the Government can draw upon strategic stockpiles of 100 critical materials from aluminum to zinc...
After Stalin's death, Khrushchev relieved the papers' grey monotony by allowing more lively coverage and makeup. As editor of Izvestia, Khrushchev's son-in-law, Aleksei Adzhubei, introduced a degree of cautious criticism; he also went in for some mild sensationalism, such as reporting the activities of the Abominable Snowman...
...Knack. With a tap on his snare drum, a fillip of his hair, or an rpm of his white cycle he can banish the serneity of any normal giri and transform her into a quivering mass of ungovernable desire. Colin wants to get The knack. He's just a mild-mannered, horny school-teacher who'd be satisfied with one of Tolen's girls. So when Nancy arrives, Colin decides to make his feeble play, with some help from Tom, a crazy Irishman who must paint everything white. Good destroys evil, Colin gets Nancy, and Tolen loses The Knack...
...summer program, an expanded version of the spring's England operation, covered ten cities in the United States, with success in some and not-so-mild failure in others. Residents San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York seemed to let a computer guide their love lives, but the response was not up to program predictions. And students at the University at Bloomington, set back only 137 applications...