Word: amnesiaize
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...longer able to undersell everyone else in the world market. Eager British, German and other traders have invaded old Japanese markets. Some of the old customers-Indonesia, Burma, the Philippines-are still too mindful of Japanese aggression to want to do much business again. "No amount of amnesia on our part," a Japanese newspaper reminded its readers recently, "will erase the impressions made on the minds of the injured parties." World War II wiped out Japan's captive markets in Korea, Formosa and Manchuria, and the cold war has closed the door to trade with mainland China...
...Wait (Parklane; United Artists). Mickey Spillane is not a writer to duck the vital issues. The first movie made from one of his mysteries, I, The Jury (TIME, Aug. 7), was a warning to psychoanalysts to stay out of the numbers racket. The second is apparently an ad for amnesia...
...pleasures of amnesia also include a chance to punch the daylights out of a fatso-&-so (Bruno Ve Sota), and to give two other villains a fatal case of lead poisoning. When Hero Quinn finally gets his memory back, it seems almost an unhappy ending...
Says Dr. Cohen in summary: "He remains disoriented, with poor judgment, flattened [emotional responses] and a profound amnesia. The outlook is poor, but not completely without hope that he may some day be able to ... manage outside the hospital." Cases like Hewitt's will become more common, Dr. Cohen points out (Brentwood already has two more), as the practice spreads of opening the chest to massage a stalled heart...
...soap operas deal with people in trouble. But, according to Winsor, TV's really profitable soap-opera woes must be based more on emotional collisions than physical ailments: "There's not so much amnesia and creeping diseases of the foot as on radio." TV soap operas are also tied to the set, and cannot jump around the world from Manhattan to Hawaii to London with the ease of their radio rivals. Veteran Irna Phillips, who writes radio's Guiding Light, has to be restrained on the TV screen from a tendency toward writing in big courtroom scenes...