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Garbage Somewhere. It does not seem to matter that Nancy can just barely carry a tune. The slick arrangements, the electronic doctoring and the charisma of the Sinatra name carry her along very well, just as they do her singer brother, Frank Jr., 23. Junior, however, does not have Sis's smoky sex appeal. With her lemur eyes, her pouty lips and luxuriant swirls of streaked blonde hair, she comes on like Mata Hari in a miniskirt...
...city to govern; but he also had some 20,000 workers on his hands, now a tight and immensely devoted organization. The Mayor had to make a choice. He could let the group disband and work with a moribund Republican party during his administration, hoping that his charisma would draw his campaign workers back on to the 1969 bandwagon. But this would be a gamble against unfavorable odds. In four years time Lindsay would have made the enemies every incumbent makes and tarnished his shiny white armor. His only alternative was to nurse the organization that had developed around...
...this is the source of Conyers' charisma in the eyes of many Negroes. They know that he feels that the Democratic party must confront the problems of the nation's disadvantaged with a massive and quick effort. They know that he thinks that many of the traditional supporters of past reform legislation -- like the unions in particular -- simply do not appreciate the magnitude of the task that confronts former New Dealers...
...right up to election eve 1968, they at least have settled the most bitterly divisive issue of all-who their candidates will be. The Republicans are just getting started, and some rough mileage stretches ahead. The ideal candidate would have to be a G.O.P.-style L.B.J., only with the charisma and the capacity to unify all factions and win an election. He would have to be something like the composite superfigure in the 100 Pipers Scotch ads-one with the party loyalty of a Taft, the looks of a Teddy Roosevelt, the tongue of a Lincoln, the humanitarianism...
...first objection -- the threat of rampant militarism -- seems highly illusory. The doctrine of military subservience to civilian institutions has been firmly and irrevocably established in this their susceptibility to the charisma of Commanders-in-Chief, but no one, from William Henry Harrison to Dwight David Eisenhower, ever came to power at the head of an infantry column. It is unlikely that establishing a volunteer army would unleash a succession of military coups...