Word: limelighted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hopes as a Senator, he announced wittily, are "to stay out of the limelight, out of the headlines, and out of the swimming pool...
...decisive control of the state senate. As always, the winning candidates posed for pictures and gave interviews. Yet almost all of them would readily have admitted that the man most responsible for the victory was State Chairman Ray Charles Bliss, 54, a "politician's politician" who avoids the limelight as though it were a death...
Turn Off the Limelight. Bunge & Born has remained inconspicuous partly because it has taken the position that "with little direct contact with the public, we have no need to advertise." A deeper reason is that Bunge & Born consciously avoids the limelight because its great bulk alone makes it a target for critics. Says one executive, speaking of the U.S. subsidiary: "We're in a funny spot. A lot of Americans don't like the idea of a foreign company being paid by the U.S. Government to export surplus wheat...
...Rockefeller had never been much interested in politics or in being in the limelight. As Rockefeller's political ambitions grew, so did the gap between his interests and Tod's. When Rocky first made known his plans for divorce, his wife, his brothers and his advisers tried to get him to change his mind-but Rockefeller was adamant. The November announcement of the marital breakup came like political thunder. Then, less than 48 hours later, came word of the loss of the Rockefellers' youngest son, Michael, in the waters off New Guinea, and the Governor...
...tripled his fortune since he went to Europe, has settled his $700,000 tax debt to the U.S. Government for $425,000 cash. He gets 75% of his income outside the U.S. market and netted $3,000,000 for 1952's Limelight, not counting U.S. royalties. Royalties roll in steadily from his old films, most of which he owns outright. Like many foreign stars living in Switzerland, he pays the Swiss government a flat and fairly nominal yearly sum, and no additional income taxes. He has never lost his penny-conscious regard for money. In fact, although he lives...