Word: spotlighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Though the delegation had decided to split their vote among Kennedy, Johnson and Symington, one after another yelled, "O.K.!" and waved their arms in assent. Moments later the clerk called "WYOMING!" and Delegation Chairman Tracy McCracken, his white hair glistening in the spotlight, cried: "Wyoming's vote will make a majority for Senator Kennedy!" And through the thunderous tumult came Missouri's move to declare the nomination by acclamation (final roll-call tally: Kennedy, 806; Johnson, 409; Symington, 86; Stevenson...
...wrote President Eisenhower and Harry Truman asking their advice on how to cast her first vote. Truman sent her a grumpy reply, advising her to read her history books, but Ike responded by aiming a national fund-raising address at the young woman and thrusting her into the national spotlight (TIME, Feb. 8). What finally made up her mind to be a Republican, she said, was unfair Democratic criticism of Ike over the U-2 incident: "It got me up in arms...
...Light Bandit. Over a span of several days within the next month, a gunman in a grey Ford coupe equipped with a red spotlight prowled lovers' lanes in outlying sections of Los Angeles. Flashing the spotlight as if he were a police man, he pulled up to parked cars, robbed the couples at pistol point. Local news papers called him "the Red Light Bandit." On two occasions, he forced a woman to get into his car and perform, as the indictments later charged, an "unnatural sex act." One of the victims, a girl of 17, was also forced...
...Witnesses also said that a pen flashlight found in the grey Ford looked like one that the bandit had used. The prosecution produced a nut, found in Chessman's pocket when he was arrested, and charged that he had used it in attaching red cellophane to the spotlight on the car. A plainclothesman who had interrogated Chessman the day after his arrest testified that he made several statements linking him to the red-light crimes, including an admission that the 17-year-old girl was in his car. And most damaging of all, three victims, including the sexually maltreated...
...front, Bing assured the audience that the performance would go on after intermission. Baritone Mario Sereni was called as a substitute, but when the audience filed back at the warning buzzer half an hour later, a spotlight hit the curtain, and Bing stepped out again. "This," he began slowly, "is one of the saddest nights . . . I ask you all to rise in memory of one of our greatest performers, who died as I am sure he would have wanted to die-in the middle of one of his greatest performances. I am sure you will agree that it would...