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Word: limelight (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fewer Stogies. In West Germany, where the round of ceremonies honoring Adenauer promises to reach Wagnerian proportions, his successor-designate, Vice Chancellor Ludwig Erhard, stayed discreetly out of the limelight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: The Time of the Sphinx | 9/27/1963 | See Source »

...committee's mistake, and the general's demeanor, were both significant. Though the eldest son of Chiang Kaishek, Nationalist China's venerable president, Chiang Ching-kuo, 53, is the mystery man of Formosa who avoids the limelight. Partly, the mystery has professional reasons: as chief of Formosa's secret police and head of the guerrilla activities directed against Red China, he naturally seeks the shadows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Formosa: Little Chiang | 9/20/1963 | See Source »

...faced Mandy Rice-Davies, 18, were prostitutes.* If either was dismayed at being formally branded a whore, neither showed it. At the London premiere of Cleopatra and an otherwise exclusive buffet supper afterward, Mandy in a brief blue gown that was designed by herself (and looked it) stole the limelight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: One Crowded Hour | 8/9/1963 | See Source »

Last week the subject was very much in the limelight as Y.P.F. signed a new contract with Oklahoma's Kerr McGee Oil to drill an additional 350 wells. Two days later, Argentina's electoral college chose a new President, Arturo Illia, who has vowed to annul all the oil contracts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Argentina: Slippery Oil | 8/9/1963 | See Source »

...punishing attack from velvet-voiced Defense Counsel James Burge, her coolly elegant façade began to crumble. Toward the end of her testimony, a booing crowd outside the Old Bailey even hurled a couple of eggs in her direction. Mandy, by contrast, plainly relished every moment in the limelight. In her first few minutes of testimony, she said casually that she had made love to Lord Astor as well as Douglas Fairbanks Jr. (Both men later denied her claim.) To Burge's sardonic suggestion that she had only brought in Fairbanks' name to boost the price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: Dial S for Squalor | 8/2/1963 | See Source »

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