Word: spotlighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Compared with the heigh-ho, collegiate approach of Vallee, today's crooner is a suave, smoky-eyed predator. His natural habitat is the supper club, his prey the middle-aged female. Cologned, imperially trim, hair sculptured and pomaded, he moves in the spotlight's golden glow like a young god, a smiling vision in pancake makeup, velvet-trimmed dinner jacket, and patent-leather shoes...
...ailments. He uses his chummy ties with the nation's top businessmen to persuade them to restrict foreign investing, last week received the first reports from 623 corporate chiefs on what they are doing to retrench. White House aides grumble that he has stolen too much of the spotlight in the payments-balancing act, and that he too vigorously defends the business establishment. Unlike the last several Commerce Secretaries, Connor has become a major adviser to the President, so far has helped to beat down Martin's pressures for tougher, direct controls on capital exports. - Gardner Ackley...
Toward evening's end, Johnson hustled his guests into a waiting limousine, sped through the almost deserted, post-midnight Washington streets to the Lincoln Memorial. Aware that Yameogo wanted especially to see the shrine, Johnson ordered that the spotlight illuminating the seated Lincoln figure be left on. As a Secret Serviceman beamed a flashlight, Johnson escorted the Yameogos up the stairs and into the memorial. There they paused, as Yameogo caught his first glimpse of the massive, brooding figure. "Formidable! Formidable!," he whispered in French. On the trip back to Blair House, Yameogo and Johnson quoted to each other...
...know of a single case where bank failure has not been attributable to gross misconduct," said the U.S. Comptroller of the Currency. Jaunty, loquacious James J. Saxon was in the limelight again and loving it, but what U.S. bankers saw was a glaring spotlight trained right on them. The occasion was the opening last week of hearings by Arkansas Senator John McClellan and his Senate Investigations Subcommittee, familiar probers of the nation's sinners, into a recent rash of troubles in U.S. banking...
Followed by an impromptu violet spotlight and exploding flashbulbs, she glided down the aisle of a packed Pudding auditorium. A pianist stumbled through "Days of Wine and Roses." The crowd hooted." "This is crazy...marvelous...unabelievable..."she mumbled. Her father, Class of '31, was at the foot of the stage, and she fell into Lis arms crying "Have you ever...