Word: limelighter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...exactly an extravert himself, Richard Nixon describes his elder daughter Tricia, 24, as the introvert of the family. "She does not like the limelight," he said in a recent interview. Despite her passion for privacy, Tricia handles public appearances with great panache. This month she is featured in a six-page fashion layout accompanying her father's Ladies' Home Journal interview, and shares the center fold with her sister Julie in Vogue. She led millions of television viewers on a tour of the White House living quarters, displaying an enviable stage presence as she showed off family mementos...
...Angelo's, a Tallahassee restaurant. He and his wife Virginia, who is described by acquaintances as "a cheerleader type," began to turn down many invitations to parties and dinners and limited their social engagements to bridge games with close friends. "We were not used to being in the limelight," says Carswell's daughter, Mrs. Ramsay Langston, 24. "We wondered if it was ever going to be over...
...simply exposing the nature of America's CBW potential. But a free lance Washington journalist, Sy Hersch, already had exposed the extent of America's CBW potential in a book published two years before. Indeed, it was not his discovery of CBW that pushed the Congressman into the national limelight. It was that McCarthy, the Representative in the House, was "disturbed" about CBW, and that he was going to do something about...