Word: spotlighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...National Council for Civic Responsibility yesterday asked citizens to "help put the spotlight on America's extremist fringe." Five Harvard Faculty members joined in signing the plea, published as a full-page advertisement in the New York Times...
Dead Center. The opening round served to spotlight one significant difference in style between the two parties. The Wembley format was all Wilson's doing; taking his cue from Lyndon Johnson, the Labor leader has made it plain that Labor's campaign will be essentially a one-man show. The Tories in contrast intend to run as a team, giving Sir Alec's Cabinet ministers as much exposure as possible to emphasize the quality and depth of the Tory front bench against what they already are calling Labor's "one-man band...
Forget the status, we need the ante. So quoth Thomas Pickford, 41, founder of the Quorum Club, the dimly lit nob nook in Washington's Carroll Arms Hotel where Bobby Baker pursued his hobbies (and stood them to drinks). Ever since Bobby moved into the spotlight, the Q. Club has had difficulty getting its members to form a Quorum. Now Pickford has dispensed with Robert's Rules of Order. "Your admittance card is your wallet," he assures John Q. Public. "View the celebrated nudes. Wine and dine in one of America's most famous clubs...
...Rumanians refused to invite the peripatetic Nikita Khrushchev to last week's party for fear that he might steal the spotlight for himself and use it to blast Peking. Moscow asked permission to send President Mikoyan instead. Peking, hailing its "traditional" ties with a land few Chinese had even heard of, renamed one of its infamous state farms the "Marco Polo Bridge Sino-Rumanian Friendship People's Commune...
...soon as he officially becomes a candidate, kill-joy Section 315 (a) may well preclude any more presidential press conferences on television until after the election. Unless, of course, Lyndon wants to invite Barry - and Lar -to share the White House spotlight...