Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...population explosion is more myth than menace in the U.S. Since World War II, the nation has experienced a modest growth of 18% per decade, one-half what it was 100 years ago-and right now the birth rate is declining...
Ever since he arrived in Washington 17 years ago as the brash junior Senator from Minnesota, Hubert Humphrey has been happy as a clam in his modest, $40,000 home at 3216 Coquelin Terrace in suburban Chevy Chase, Md. So has his wife Muriel. For both, the place has a strong sentimental attachment. Their children's footprints are set in the sidewalk. Muriel takes great pride in a bedroom that she has converted into a sewing room. Hubert liked to relax after a hard day in the Senate by donning an apron and sweeping the halls...
...miles from Santa Fe, the nearest large city, has half a dozen modest bars but few other entertainment facilities. To amuse themselves, Los Alamos residents have formed a disproportionately large number of social clubs (which concentrate on such specialized activities as bird watching, chess and classical music), also hike, ride-200 families own horses-and read extensively. Says Unitarian Minister Robert Lehman: "It is a self-conscious model town where such sin as exists is pretty dreary...
Wary Legislators. As an interim reform, the Scranton administration last week pressed state legislators to raise magistrates' salaries, require new ones to be lawyers, cut the present number to 18, and drastically alter the case-assignment system to prevent collusion. Even that modest package is given scant chance of passage. As a troubled Scranton aide points out: "These men are probably the most powerful politicians in the state. They do favors for people every day, and state legislators are scared to death of them...
...newest sovereign power, Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew last week dispatched his foreign minister, Sinnathamby Rajaratnam, on the nonaligned nations' diplomatic equivalent of the American Express Co.'s basic budget tour: the United Nations (to plead for admission), London, Moscow, and a modest selection of Eastern European and Afro-Asian capitals...