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Ever since the cast was thrust into the world's spotlight, the show has been plagued by such petty jealousies and pungent recriminations that it might better be called One NASA Family. The latest flap came with the space agency's announcement last week that Public Affairs Officer Paul Haney, the calm, canorous "Voice of Apollo," has been ordered to a lesser post in Washington after six years at Houston's Manned Spaceflight Center. The word was that some NASA officials thought that he had become too impressed with himself. Haney, who wanted to be on hand...
HUAC also has to compete with more muckrakers than ever. Its plans to investigate the riots in the ghettoes were preempted by the highly publized Kerner Report and the findings of two Senate groups. The Presidential commissioner has replaced the Congressional prosecutor in the Washington spotlight. Another factor in HUAC's eclipse was the Wallace campaign and growth of the American Independent Party. Presidential politics provided a more attractive, more visible expression of discontent that a HUAC committeeroom...
...Springfield, Daley's team was having second thoughts. Each of the 25 legislators who heard Humphrey speak was photographed with him, and each received a press release for his home-town newspapers. Those who had stayed away realized they had passed up a chance to appear in the spotlight, at least in the eyes of their constituents. Of the study group, says Stevenson...
...last week stirred outpourings of gratitude from Arab states by embargoing the sale of French arms to Israel, assigned an emissary in Beirut to tell the Lebanese: "France would not be indifferent in case of a threat of Lebanon's integrity and sovereignty." The statement served to spotlight De Gaulle's efforts to restore France's influence in the troubled area...
...Dyck in Flanders. As a result, Jordaens passed into history as something of an also-ran. Now, thanks to a splendrous 315-work display of paintings, tapestries, drawings and prints at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, Jordaens is finally getting the kind of full-beam spotlight necessary to illuminate his artistic individuality in all its flaws and triumphs...