Word: limelighter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bobby Riggs, this week's cover subject, are so much more theatrical than athletic that we assigned TIME'S Show Business correspondent, Roland Flamini, to cover Riggs in Los Angeles. "For six hilarious, mind-boggling days," Flamini says, "I followed him around as he wallowed in the limelight and hustled games on the Beverly Hills tennis circuit. During that time he was so blatantly male chauvinistic that I began to suspect that he was really the Women's Liberation movement's secret weapon...
...only one rower with previous compeittive experience, stamping the New England east coast crew scene with an idelible and indomitable "R," growing and excelling simultaneously, compressing the years of hard and extensive training into eleven short months, finding at long last after endless and fatiguing hours of aspirations, national limelight and recognition, finding its way on the cover of Parade and onto WideWorld of Sport, out-publicizing the publicity mongers from Harry Parker's den of masculinity, reaching parity from the pure sweat and anguish of eleven months of looking at the same back and tugging the same oar, braving...
...Limelight. To the government and the financial establishment the Lip commune was a threat: the workers were challenging basic laws of a capitalist society. Gleefully, the political left whipped up L'Affaire Lip into a cause celebre...
Jean Charbonnel, Minister of Industrial and Scientific Development, worked out a compromise by which the watchmaking plant would get $7,250,000 in new capital, half from its parent company and half in government funds. This meant laying off only 400 workers. But the workers, enjoying the limelight as well as widespread public support, summarily rejected the plan. They even stepped up their rebellion by making the first wage payments from the proceeds of their sales. Then they refused to accept service of a court order requiring them to shut down the plant...
Died. Emmy Sonnemann Goring, 80, Junoesque wife of No. 2 Nazi Hermann Göring and unofficial first lady of the Third Reich; after a long illness; in Munich. A provincial actress in her youth, she stepped into the international limelight in 1935 by becoming the second Mrs. Goring; Adolf Hitler was best man at the wedding. In 1948, two years after her husband committed suicide in prison, Frau Goring was convicted of being a Nazi and was barred from acting for five years. Unable to stage a comeback, she lived out her days in a small apartment in Munich...