Word: absentmindedness
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Even when it comes, recognition has sometimes been careless and absentminded, casually askew. In Carew's playroom is a 2-ft.-high trophy-the Joe Cronin Award-all polished wood and gleaming brass. The American League presented it to the great lefthanded hitter in recognition of his fourth consecutive...
The problem confronting West German authorities was chilling. A brilliant nuclear physicist with a sure knowledge of how to build the atom bomb was apparently consorting with leftist ideologues and terrorists responsible for such deeds as the hijacking of the Air France plane to Entebbe last June. Was it possible...
Life changed dramatically for Onassis two years ago, when his son Alexander, then 24, was killed in a plane crash. "He aged overnight," observed a close associate. "He suddenly became an old man." In business negotiations he was uncharacteristically absentminded, irrational and petulant.
Portrait: The Man from Independence. Robert Vaughn plays the young Harry Truman, putting his life on the line to fight corruption in Missouri. Some trivia: early in his career, Vaughn played an amusing character in a half-hour Hitchcock mystery. His name is A. Dunster Lowell (we all know what...
Incomplete. That was the way it was on network entertainment shows. Scripts were judged not only by what they said but by what they did not say. Blacks were visible but untouchable, and bathrooms simply did not exist. By and large, any subjects were fair game except those that bore...