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BEFORE TENS OF MILLIONS of viewers, the nominees for what is arguably the world's most powerful office bask in the penetrating glare of studio lights, and the most telegenic candidate wins the day. The debates have proven to be more of a screen test than a test of the contenders' ideas and qualifications. The candidate who delivers the best performance lands the leading role...
...from Viet Nam. A year later, in another secret mission for Kissinger, he took part in the preparations for Richard Nixon's historic opening to China. As an Ambassador-at-Large for the Reagan Administration, Walters has visited 108 countries. Many of these tasks were performed far from the glare of publicity. Last February, when the President named him to the highly visible post of U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., Walters took on a job that represented a considerable change of pace...
Humor helps, especially in a form that usually gives off a flat glare of one-dimensional optimism. It is hard not to like the "well read, well shaped, well disposed widow, early sixties, not half bad in the dusk with the light behind me." She sought a "companionable, educated, professional man of wit and taste," and she probably deserved him. Her self-effacement is fairly rare in personals. The ads tend sometimes to be a little ner- vous and needing, and anxiously hyperbolic. Their rhetoric tends to get overheated and may produce unintended effects. A man's hair stands...
...President, a few patted him on the back, others embraced the First Lady. Some shyly or proudly introduced their wives and children. But all seemed eager to move on, eager to hug those waiting for them a few yards away, eager to get home and out from under the glare of being the unwilling heroes of a televised international crisis. After embracing Nancy, an ebullient Victor Amburgy of San Francisco rushed over, picked up his small niece and bear-hugged the beaming girl. He seemed to want to press...
...long months they have lived in a no-man's-land: no glare of TV cameras, no transcontinental phone calls from network anchormen and no publicized negotiations. It is not clear exactly who seized them, or where they are being held, or even whether all are still alive. Only because of the attention focused on the TWA hijacking was the U.S. public reminded of the plight of the seven other Americans who have been taken hostage in Lebanon, one by one, since March...