Word: limelights
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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...
...Brother Bobby, after eight years in the limelight as Attorney General, will be 43-the ideal age for a Kennedy to run for President...
...would seem perfectly suited to the part. Born to wealth and high social position, she has beauty, a swift intelligence and rarefied cultural interests. As Jack Kennedy's wife, she has lived for years in the public's gaze and should be well accustomed to the limelight. But in fact she shrinks from it. Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy's struggle to maintain her own separate and private identity has been lifelong. It marked her girlhood. It has marked her marriage. It is the key to her past-and to her future...
Hirohito's problem has been to convert adulation into affection. With the older generation, he seems to have succeeded. And with the new generation of princes and princesses coming into the limelight, the postwar antipathy of young Japanese for royalty seems to be changing to tolerance or even lukewarm approval. Emperor No. 124 of the 2,621-year dynasty looked secure in his seat, and there...
...very reason of his climb up the ever steepening curve, the scientist has more than ever before come into the consciousness of world society?and in that limelight the scientist more than ever before is fumbling for and arguing about his proper role in society itself. "Scientists," says Author-Scientist C. P. Snow, "are the most important occupational group of the world today. At this moment, what they do is of passionate concern to the whole of human society...