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...Another team in the national spotlight during the early '50's was Princeton. Coached by Charley Caldwell, the Tigers built up a 24 game winning streak largely due to the running, passing, and kicking of an all-around back, who led the country in total offense and nabbed the Heisman Trophy. Who was this fabled back...
...Perino's, a fashionable Los Angeles restaurant, where Nixon gleefully shook hands with bystanders on the sidewalk and his party celebrated inside with a $40 bottle of Chateau Lafite Rothschild (1961) during dinner. Happy, too, was Kissinger; at the height of a brilliant career, he enjoys a global spotlight and an influence that most professors only read about in their libraries...
From 72 to 564. Four years later, Jordan took up a task that was to put him in the national spotlight and reorder the politics of the South. As head of the Voter Education Project of the Southern Regional Council, he directed a campaign that registered nearly 2,000,000 new black voters. He crisscrossed the South, setting up registration drives and urging black leaders to run for office. During his tenure at VEP, the number of black elected officials in the South increased from about 72 to 564. Jordan then moved to the United Negro College Fund; there...
...tardy person always runs the risks of mistiming and misjudgment; it takes an expert in unpunctuality to know how late is too late. The novice may find that his grand entrance coincides with a general exit, or that his quest for invisibility puts him instead into a pitiless spotlight of glares...
...weren't listening. [Laughter.] The answer is that show business is full of paradoxes, and one of them is that shy people go out into the spotlight...