Word: amnesia
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...father made this spotlight possible-thank you. But Mr. Luce does everything on a grand scale, and on the 25th anniversary of LIFE he did a 90-minute TV show with me as the star, and now he has invited me here. Mr. Luce obviously has vision, intelligence -and amnesia ... I get a personal kick just seeing all these wonderful public servants up here from Washington. I think it is just marvelous, I really do, because it is a kind of tough time to leave Washington, when all the cherry trees and all the Kennedys are in bloom." The introductions...
Like a Pianist. The great surgeons' egoism is reflected in a selective amnesia. Practically any one of them, asked to name the three greatest living surgeons, has difficulty in thinking of two others. Individualists down to their physical characteristics, great surgeons show that even their skilled hands need be of no particular design. Like a pianist's, they may be long and slender or broad and powerful. Dr. Moore's are of medium proportions, kept limber by playing piano duets with his children on paired Steinway grands...
Acting under instructions not to point out manager Edward A. Alpers '63 as the police asked them questions, members appeared to suffer from amnesia. "Gee, I'm sorry, officer, I can't remember who our leader is," said one. "This is a pretty disorganized group. I don't think we have a leader," said another...
Even the umpires caught stage fright. Jocko Conlan called the Giants' Willie Mays both "safe" and "out" on the same play (he meant "out"), later pleaded amnesia: "I don't remember doing any such thing." Shrugged Mays: "I guess I was out." One thing Conlan didn't forget: to face the TV cameras when he dusted off home plate-just in case his pants split...
...California, he stuck mainly to bipartisan subjects of interest in the West: conservation and reclamation, water and power, floods and dams. But he well knew that for a politician there is no such thing as a nonpolitical handshake -and that the folks beaming up at him would suffer no amnesia on election...