Word: limelight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pudgy and sometimes petulant as a bobbysoxer, Luci has evolved into a slim, articulate, engaging girl-woman who has been able to weather the limelight with considerable poise and-it seems to some-greater relish than her pleas for privacy would suggest. The impression she conveys obviously concerns her. Though she only turned 19 on July 2, she abhors the stereotype of the teen-age marriage, points out bravely that her own and Pat's ages average out to 21. On this score her mother, who was 21 and a college graduate before she married, says reassuringly: "I think...
...Daughter Luci Baines and Fiancé Pat Nugent, who attracted their share of attention-and then some. Luci, who admits to being a "theatrical person," wore a dazzling orange dress and outsized, orange-rimmed sunglasses. As for Pat, who was having troubles with an errant zipper on his trousers, limelight was the last thing he wanted. Afterward, the young couple headed down to the L.B.J. ranch for the holiday weekend and Luci's 19th birthday party. It will be about the last respite for Luci before Aug. 6, her wedding...
...compleat Senator, Javits never forgets his role. He has grown so used to the limelight that the public figure and the private man have fused and become virtually indistinguishable; his handsome wife Marion complains, only half in jest, that even at home he will not answer a question without clearing his throat and buttoning his coat. When approached by a streetwalker late one night in Manhattan, the Senator introduced himself, shook her hand and proceeded to solicit her vote. He loves his eminence and supports it with a sober single-mindedness matched by few, if any, of his colleagues...
Died. Victor Kravchenko, 61, wartime Soviet .defector, an army captain who sought asylum while on duty as a supply officer in Washington in 1944, briefly held the limelight with his best-selling I Chose Freedom (1946), later changed his name to "Peter Martin" because "I am an American" and continued his writings, though he lived in constant fear of Red reprisal; by his own hand (.38-cal. pistol); in his Manhattan apartment, where friends said he had been depressed over the Viet Nam war "and other things...
...that the New Boston has turned from a seditious idea to a Babbitt cliche, how is the former lifeblood of the city faring beneath the limelight of the Pru? It is not faring well. Boston's major problem as a harbor is usually summed up in two words: New York. Boston has never really recovered from those years in the mid-1800's when the upstart Knickerbockers took away not only the prestige, but most of the business, of the foreign trade. When domestic trade came to be handled almost entirely by railroads and trucks, Boston had to compete...