Word: forgetfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...helplessly. He had, he told newsmen, met Estes once, briefly, when Estes was paying one of many visits to Agriculture Department headquarters in Washington. Said Freeman: "I might recognize him in pictures." Then he mustered up a bit of bitter humor: "I'm sure I'll never forget the name." The newsmen laughed...
...lights went down at the 20th Century-Fox stockholders' meeting last week as Spyros Skouras-beneficent impresario of a troubled corporation-happily announced a preview showing of scenes from new Fox films. The ploy failed. Twenty minutes of movies helped no one to forget that Fox lost $22.5 million on last year's operations, and next year's hopes rest entirely with the $30 million production of Cleopatra. The fact that Liz Taylor's take from Cleopatra will exceed $1,300,000 brought a bitter joke; a furious stockholder nominated her for the board of directors...
...sexual psychopath" (the Chronicle). Swathed in bandages and an eye patch, April posed bravely for photographers and forgave her attacker: "Anyone who is like that-we ought to feel sorry for him." But having latched onto surefire excitement, San Francisco's papers were ready neither to forgive nor forget. By last week the city was in the middle of a "crime wave"-courtesy of the press...
...Pogo, Walt Kelly's pseudo-sophisticated comic strip, spoke a kind of Pig-Russian and bore an unmistakable resemblance to Nikita Khrushchev. He even talked like Khrushchev. "You forget prominent Russian proverb!" he confided to his companion, a bearded, cigar-smoking goat with a remarkable resemblance to Fidel Castro: "The shortage will be divided among the peasants." The goat broke out lunch-cigars and sugar ("One thing my country got like the dickens! Is sugar! y tabacos!")-and the two settled down to a dialectical argument in dialect...
...many friends in the government that it will probably have to pick them off according to seniority. Archibald Cox '34, Solicitor General, is therefore an excellent candidate; his boss, Robert F. Kennedy '48, and David E. Bell of the Budget Bureau are not. Still, one can't forget John Kenneth Galbraith and Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38, who both protested Harvard's giving too many degrees to Republicans, and who may both be ready for the honor themselves. Whizzer became Mr. Justice White too late...