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When Marcos stepped up to a small podium beneath the Speaker's desk in the House to address a joint session of Congress, he regained the spotlight with a carefully reasoned plea for a continued U.S. presence in Asia (see ESSAY). "Today we send our sons in total commitment to South Viet Nam on an errand of mercy, although we face the retaliation of armed Communism in our own land," he said. Eying Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman J. William Fulbright who sat-on his hands -a few rows away, he said: "We note a hesitancy, some frustration...
That sort of headline hugging makes it tough on the average starlet who is eager enough for the spotlight but doesn't care to go quite that far to attract it. And so Tanya Lopert, girl starlet and daughter of a United Artists vice president, had to be content with something less spectacular but considerably more ladylike. With Daddy in tow, Tanya made her big entrance at a party at the Palazzo Ca' Rezzonico, dressed in a spangled magenta mini-gown slit to the thigh...
With nearly all the secrets gone, and the guests along with them, there ended the climactic day of a spotlight-spangled courtship and engagement. And, since it was a White House wedding, it was fitting that the President have the last word. "She'll have a family, just as many as the good Lord will let her," he said. "She'll have a houseful of kids...
Lowest in the Majors. That kind of pitching should make McDowell the sensation of the young season. But he had to share the spotlight last week with San Francisco's Willie Mays-who hit the 512th home run of his career, thereby breaking Mel Ott's 19-year-old National League record-and with his own Cleveland teammates. At week's end, the Indians were leading the second-place Baltimore Orioles by two full games. McDowell's fellow pitcher Luis Tiant had yet to lose in three starts, and the entire Cleveland pitching staff boasted...
...Many thanks for your simply wizard London cover story [April 15]. As a native Londoner, I assure you that London has always been a wonderful town. But it needed a shrewd Yorkshireman and TIME to turn the spotlight on the old girl...