Word: limelight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Crisis Change. Then, last week, there was a different tone, in the wake of Nikita Khrushchev's Berlin blockbuster. East Germany's angry belligerence at the Brandenburg Gate had the incidental effect of propelling Candidate Brandt into the limelight and Candidate Adenauer into the wings. As custodian of the embattled city, Willy Brandt was smack in front of the TV cameras when Vice President Lyndon Johnson and the U.S. troop reinforcements arrived to bolster West Berliners' morale...
...polite and unruffled demeanor, Dillon proved to be one of Ike's most valuable troopers in skirmishes with Capitol Hill. He is not a man to make memorable quotes, but accomplishes more by not drawing attention to himself. One time he did not entirely escape the limelight was during the U-2 spy case last spring. Christian Herter was at a NATO foreign ministers' meeting in Istanbul, and Dillon was Acting Secretary of State when word reached Washington that the Russians had shot down a U2. Dillon, who had been fully briefed on the plane's real...
...Robert Amory Jr., 46. A tough-minded law professor at his alma mater ('36) and a veteran of Cambridge, Mass., politics as a member of the town school committee, the little-known Bostonian went to work in the planned obscurity of Dullesville in the '50s, left the limelight to his Brahmin Boswell brother, Cleveland (Who Killed Society?) Amory...
...little trouble getting the feel of his new desk in the Treasury Building. "My own internal thinking has not changed," he says. "I have not had to change my views." As an unmistakable G.O.P. voice in a Democratic Administration, Dillon has consciously tried to keep out of the limelight, worked diligently to transform his conservative fiscal views into action...
Soaring back to Ghana this week, Kwame Nkrumah could reflect contentedly on the success of his trip. It had been limelight all the way. First there was his big speech at the U.N., in which he urged an all-African command for the Congo force and insisted that all foreign diplomats get out. Then President John F. Kennedy greeted him warmly at the White House, took him in to meet the family. Finally Ghana's beaming Osagyefo (Redeemer) sat down in London with all the other British Commonwealth leaders to soberly deliberate on South Africa's fate...