Word: forgetfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Minnesota. Jaunty, fast-talking Hubert Humphrey, 49, is a child of the South Dakota dust bowl who cannot forget that New Deal relief programs saved the customers who saved his family's drugstore. Mastermind of Minnesota's potent Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, erudite ex-Professor (political science) Humphrey first talked his way to the Senate in 1948. He can be counted on to lead his crusade for true-blue liberalism come recession, prosperity or the millennium...
...affair with the singer, but denied being an accomplice to murder. "I never saw her face after the death of the baby. I was having a new affair, but we separated in a friendly way." Asked about his new inamorata, the old lover smiled broadly, "Let's forget about that." The audience laughed...
...weeks, 30,000 cases and 420 deaths were recorded. Sewage-contaminated water has been blamed for small outbreaks this year in Nicholas County, W. Va. and Hawkins County, Tenn. But the PHS says that most infectious hepatitis is transmitted by person-to-person contact, e.g., by small children who forget to wash their hands after they go to the toilet...
...prospective first-nighter who declared himself unworried was T. H. White, who will get 1% of the gross, or about $3,000 a month for the life of the show. From his home on the remote Channel island of Alderney, he wrote to Lerner: "For God's sake, forget about me. I want Camelot to succeed as a musical. Put in bubble dancers if you want." To his pen pal Richard Burton he wrote: "I hope it will be borozonic. I will be there on opening night, the old gentleman in the sixth row." Meanwhile, since White is a once...
...perhaps bad form to say so, but there is one campaign issue which must not smother in the post-election Era of Good Feeling. The nation must not forget the systematic deception of the public practiced for eight years by the Eisenhower government. This is one of those evils against which angry dissent is more effective than understanding and tolerance; for the trouble is that Eisenhower is leaving as popular as he came. Unless the press and the public rub the point in, American governments will learn just how easy it is to fool all of the people...