Word: spotlights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Into the Spotlight. The eclipse of Mikoyan, even if temporary, throws into high relief a growing figure on the Soviet scene: stocky, jug-eared Nikita Khrushchev, general secretary of the Communist Party-a job held by Stalin to the end of his life. A dozen major speeches have put Khrushchev in the world spotlight during the past year. He has attended Communist Party congresses in Poland and Prague, led a Soviet delegation...
...basketball spotlight is beginning to change...
Died. Mario Avelino Peron, 64, only brother of Argentina's President Juan Domingo Peron; of peritonitis; in Buenos Aires. Appointed director of the Buenos Aires Zoo by brother Juan in 1946, Mario Perón avoided the spotlight and politics, once said: "I prefer my zoo, where I have all my animals labeled...
...build up their own national ego. And Americans, expecting friendship, are hypersensitive to the needling. Only mutual understanding, MacLennan believes, will resolve the problem: "The Canadian and American national neuroses will continue to howl at one another like a pair of coyotes in the dark until we turn a spotlight on them, examine them, and let them fade into forgotten nightmares...
Always Hopeful. About two years ago, Gloria's urge to stand in the spotlight on her own began to get the best of her-and Leopold as well. Last year, having tried a one-man show of her paintings without conspicuous success, she took a fling at acting in summer stock. Stokowski, who failed to attend her premiere, was notably noncommittal. "I am always hopeful." he said, "for the development of new talent." But last month, as Gloria's New York debut with Franchot Tone in a minor role in The Time of Your Life at the City...