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Good Bye, Old Paint: The named horse of the masked or unmasked man has become an endangered species. No longer does Silver heigh-ho. One consequence of this phenomenon has been the general decline of charisma. The devastating effect has been the same on Adlai Stevenson, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John Wayne, and Jack Armstrong, as well as some fall-out on Doc and Reggie...
...sign of national charisma. Either that or it's a new gauge of popularity," said Oregon Governor Tom McCall after winning the Governors' competition in the annual Calaveras County Jumping Frog Jubilee (inspired by Mark Twain's celebrated story). Thanks to a five-year-old bullfrog named John's Long Tom, McCall bested 30 rival gubernatorial frogophiles and walked away with first prize for the third time in six years. Neighboring California Governor Ronald Reagan's frog finished a dismal 20th. The booby prize in the candidates' competition went to California's Lieutenant...
Snedden, 47, a somewhat drab and uninspiring speaker, could scarcely hope to match Whitlam's charisma. In the campaign, he tried to capitalize on something more important to voters: inflation, which under Labor has jumped from an annual rate...
Plodding, persistent Conservative Leader Robert Stanfield, 60, who is no match for Trudeau in charisma, has crisscrossed the country, building up support for his party. Stanfield has forcefully exploited Canadians' mounting impatience over the government's lackluster handling of inflation, which is currently running at about 10%. While Trudeau sought to blame external factors for Canada's mushrooming cost of living, Stanfield called for firm and prompt wage-price controls. The government's stand on inflation, he argued, was "cynical and incredible . . . a message of despair." A government report last month disclosed that prices in Canada...
Those fiery words of five years ago illustrate the charisma that made Cesar Chavez a liberal hero and his United Farm Workers of America a power in the grape and vegetable fields of the Southwest. Today, another side of Chavez's personality is becoming painfully apparent: his talents as a union administrator scarcely match his gift for inspirational leadership. Partly as a result, his prediction has a hollow ring; the U.F.W.A. is fighting now to stay alive. Membership, which totaled 50,000 in California alone in 1971, is down to 10,000. Faced with the certainty that still more...