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Prime Minister Den Uyl has ordered an investigation of the Peron affair, but regardless of how it comes out, the accusations are another blow to Bernhard's shaky public image. Presumably, public pressure will grow more intense for his wife, Queen Juliana, to remove the prince from the limelight. To do that, she might have to abdicate...
...selection procedure usually means that if there's a donnybrook in the area, you will probably find Diehl in the limelight working with a partner from New Jersey or New York, a setup which is known as a "split crew." This was the case for the televised Boston College-Georgetown hoedown on February 21, for which Diehl arrived his usual hour and a half before the opening tap-off. He had worked Harvard's five-point loss to Penn the night before at Philadelphia's Palestra...
After the Polaroid mini-controversy quieted down, the bursar's card fell out of the limelight, and no one publicly noted or mourned the passing of I.D. card encoding early in 1975. The key to this move was Widener Library's decision to drop a proposed automation of its circulation system...
After the"benign neglect" flap, Moynihan stayed out of the limelight until Nixon made him Ambassador to India in 1973. Arriving in New Delhi at a time when Indo-American relations were at their lowest ebb?in the wake of the U.S. tilt toward Pakistan in its 1971 war with India?Moynihan wisely decided to keep an uncharacteristically low profile. He stayed close to his official residence, Roosevelt House, which he loathed; he gave private showings of John Ford films to American visitors, and made only one or two speeches. The restraints of the New Delhi post have made...
...past, such as Julian Bond and Maynard Jackson, have shown maverick impulses--Bond attacked Carter's hiring record in a speech in Boston last month (causing Mark Zweicher, a Business School student and Carter aide, to grumble in the back of the bus, "Julian's looking for some limelight, and we think he's on the Harris payrole anyway"), and rumor has it that Atlanta Mayor Jackson is leaning toward Sargent Shriver. On the other hand, the compromise desegregation plan Carter helped negotiate for Atlanta--substituting voluntary for mandatory busing--is probably unraveling under court tests, and his opposition...