Word: calm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...utterly exhausted or just doesn't give a damn. "I have no charisma," he groans. Yet he does, despite all that nonchalance. Heavy sideburns halfway down his face, a budding second chin that gives him a self-indulgent look, virile, thick, dark eyebrows and steady dark eyes, a calm voice-is there restrained passion underneath, or despair? So like McCarthy. To the kids he says the right things, he sounds straight, no shucking here, no bull...
...match, a voting record so far to the left that he might have been from Outer Mongolia-in the whole House of Representatives he cast the only vote in 1966 and 1967 against military appropriations and was against Viet Nam right from the beginning-George Brown, in that calm, methodical, don't-give-a-damn. tell-it-likc-it-is way of his, hardly seemed a threat. He was safe for a fifth term in Congress: so why throw it all up to gamble for the Senate? "I wanted to carry the ball against Viet Nam. Anyway, I wasn...
Brewer, a calm, effective but unexciting Governor, must bear some of the blame for his loss. After shocking Wallace by topping him in the seven-man Democratic primary last month, Brewer campaigned for the runoff in such a low-keyed manner that Wallace grabbed all of the attention. A racial moderate -from the Southern viewpoint-Brewer had no desire to embrace the black vote openly or to engage in racial arguments with Wallace. His strategy was a lofty "Mr. Clean" approach that even ruled out attacks on the previous Wallace administrations. "You can't fight Wallace with one hand...
...luncheon. And Gibson has been getting some volunteer help from members of the staff of New York Mayor John Lindsay. "I'm a civil engineer, an expert in building and rebuilding," Gibson says. "I will make my appointments solely on one issue -not race but quality." Gibson, a calm, thorough if not charismatic campaigner, gets clear approval as he moves through the black ward where he lives with a "Hey, brother, what's happening?" But one measure of Gibson's problem on the white hustings is the sentiment represented by the supporters of Anthony Imperiale, a white...
...under pressure. Says TWA Captain Richard Hastings, who flew copilot on last fall's Roman odyssey: "During the whole trip to Rome he didn't show any emotion. He's a pilot's pilot who knows his job." Once in the cockpit, he tried to calm Barkley but, said Williams, "He was very much upset when he opened the bag and saw it wasn't $100 million. The money was all over the cockpit floor -he was wading in it. It was like a carpet." Thoroughly angered, Barkley ordered the aircraft back into...