Word: spotlight
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...Coleman A. Young, Detroit's shrewd and aggressive mayor, hopes to use the convention to prove to the nation that his town is, as its boosters have been boasting, a city in the midst of a revival. He is well aware of the risk in seizing the national spotlight, if only for a week. "We have our warts," Young says with typical candor, "and we see them too." Republican Party leaders, in turn, hope to use Detroit as a theatrical backdrop in their bid to lure blue-collar workers and blacks away from the Democratic Party...
Bush rejects the notion that having a full-time public responsibility is a handicap, since public positions can be used to gain the all-important exposure. Says he of Dole and Baker: "They were out there in Iowa a lot too, plus they had a spotlight out of Washington that a person like me didn't have." Restricting early campaigning, he thinks, would "infringe on a person's fundamental right to seek the presidency...
...spotlight is now on Silverman. Some industry insiders say his future at NBC is riding on the network's success in the first few weeks of the fall TV season. But one West Coast producer says: "Freddie's fall schedule is a disaster. His presidency will be short-lived." Freddie Silverman last week beat Jane Cahill Pfeiffer in the rush to the executive lifeboats, but he may not make it next time...
...Barney Frank '61 launched the next step in the fight--constitutions, he pointed out, can be amended, and unless Harvard cooperated, he threatened, the Bay State's would be. Unnerved by the thought of a statewide referendum on the question of special protection for the University, with the attendant spotlight on its sins past and present, Harvard bit the bullet and decided not to lobby against the exemption repeal when it appeared in the legislature this year...
February's Los Angeles Times-Institute of Politics Conference on the press and the primaries drew well-known journalists and politicos who entertained large audiences over three days with their acerbic exchanges and insightful observations. Also early in the year, Bob Hope and Tony Randall shared the Forum spotlight. But since September, Mitropoulos has been packing them in not only for the big names, but also for panels on the role Blacks and Hispanics play in national politics, feminist speakers, and intense debates between Harvard professors...