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...much of last week, the mercurial but besieged mayor of 16 years once again had the spotlight entirely to himself. As rumors swirled through a breathless Boston that Kevin White, 53, would soon announce whether he would run for a fifth consecutive term, White holed up in a Manhattan hotel. On Thursday evening he finally put the speculation to rest. With his old characteristic flair, the telegenic mayor announced in a taped, five-minute television broadcast that he was stepping down. "There comes a time in the life of every man and any city when change is appropriate," White said...
After the stock controversy blew up, embarrassed Chrysler officials quickly tried to down-play the whole episode. Said one: "It's a messy issue. We are not being shrill or overreaching. But there you are with the spotlight on, your hand's in the cookie jar and everybody's pointing fingers." Late in the week the company announced that it was no longer requesting that the Government drop its right to buy the stock...
...Shakespeare Company. So backstagers looked on with pain but not surprise as he momentarily lost his balance and slumped against the doorway. Then the crowd rose, and with it the applause. Olivier took his cue and went out onstage. Suddenly he was the dashing Lord Larry, energized by the spotlight, alive to the theatrical moment, mesmerizing one more audience. Like Tinker Bell, he heard the clapping and came to life again...
Simply by using a joint session of Congress to turn the spotlight once again on El Salvador, Reagan may have elevated a nagging foreign policy problem into a prominent campaign issue for 1984. Says one of his top political advisers: "It's waving a red flag. It's raising the urgency. It reminds me of Lyndon Johnson's escalating the Viet...
Some of Reagan's aides were fearful that summoning a joint session of Congress was too dramatic and would shift the political spotlight away from the budding economic recovery. Only twelve other times in the past 30 years have Presidents called such a special session.*But Reagan told his advisers that he felt it was necessary to make a major impact. "I have not succeeded in explaining to the public why they should care about Central and South America," he told a small group of national security advisers in late March. "This is of enormous importance to me personally...