Word: limelight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Being tucked away in the Pentagon suits Major Eisenhower fine. Without making a fetish of shunning the Presidential limelight, Soldier John has tried hard to shape his own life without fuss or favor. Bigger (178 lbs.) and taller (6 ft. 1 in.) than his father, John has Ike's grin and his parents' blue eyes, the Eisenhower receding hairline. His entire life has been touched by the climactic moments of his father's career as the top Allied commander of World War II, President of Columbia University, head of NATO forces, and finally President...
...limelight in Damascus was the newly appointed Army Chief of Staff General Afif Bizri, longtime Communist sympathizer (in World War II he played with the Nazis). Asked by reporters if he was a Communist, General Bizri took evasive action. "If you call every man who loves his country a Communist, then I am a Communist." Defense Minister Khaled el Azm, who has just concluded a $100 million military-aid deal with the Soviet Union (TIME, Aug. 19), stridently insisted that Syria's policy was one of "positive neutrality," sententiously added: "We are at the outer edge of that policy...
...thousands; even the exhibition poster (see cut) became a collector's favorite. One French connoisseur was heard to exclaim, "We never dreamed that anybody in America had a collection so wonderful, so well selected, so indicative of a really superior taste in art." For the story of the limelight-shunning banker-collector who brought off the show, see ART, An American in Paris...
...limelight sat McCarthy's chief aide, clever Roy Cohn, who, with his buddy Dave Schine, had earned the name "Junketeering Gumshoe" on his "investigating" trips abroad; Army Secretary Robert T. Stevens, the "nice guy" who had muddled his way into a political web; the shrewd, smooth-talking Senators Ev Dirksen and Karl Mundt; the lantern-jawed Tennessean Ray Jenkins, who as committee counsel peppered away at all comers; and adept, relaxed Boston Lawyer Joe Welch, attorney for the Army...
Among them is Dutch-born Jacques Sarlie, 41, of New York who calls himself an investment specialist and an old business friend of Silberstein. Drawn into the limelight by SEC reports, Sarlie called in reporters last week to tell them that he is in the proxy battle only to make a fast buck-and he has done wonderfully. So far, he says, he has cleaned up at least $1,000,000 on his stock buying, thanks to agreements to sell to Silberstein at far more than the purchase price...