Word: spotlight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ford Foundation, White House watchers have been curious about whether the President would name one man to replace Bundy in the well-publicized position of Special Assistant for National Security Affairs. Last week the President made it clear that he has no intention of offering Bundy's spotlight to any one man. At what he called a "regular, impromptu, unannounced, hurried-up press conference," he announced the appointment of two new White House aides...
...President's first trip outside the North American continent since entering the White House, and it was organized with the characteristic Johnsonian gusto for the unexpected. A compelling though unacknowledged reason for the sudden decision was the opportunity it gave the President to steal the spotlight from the Fulbright committee's televised hearings on the war. But there were other motives of greater consequence. The President wanted to galvanize the lagging pacification program in Viet Nam-and thereby show such critics as New York's Democratic Senator Robert Kennedy that he was not ignoring the political...
...Good Time." Fulbright insisted solemnly that "we are not trying to put on a circus" with the televised committee hearings. Even if he had been, Johnson's portentous flight to Honolulu would have stolen the spotlight. Naturally, that was not the chief object of the President's meeting with Saigon's leaders. "For some time I have been wanting to see them," said Johnson. "This seems to be a good time to do it." In fact, it seemed long overdue, for no U.S. President in office has ever met with the leaders of South Viet...
Chris Pardee, who has not been tested in the high jump thus far this winter, will be in the spotlight against Southern University's Richard Ross and Maryland's Frank Costello. Both have cleared...
Hope Diamond is a pro, but one gets the feeling that she's as much of an efficient businesswoman as a performer, that she draws a paycheck, not like the older burlies performers the very breath of life, from the spotlight. She's more of a respectable madame figure than a temptress. And when the show has closed and the props are packed, she is no longer Hope Diamond, gem of the exotics, but Leona Bonaccolte, reader of Gibran, mother, and resident of Edgewater...