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...King has never been beaten, if he went to jail in St. Augustine with silk pajamas and a toothbrush--and departed abruptly to take and honorary degree at Yale--he exerts, nonetheless, unparallelled charisma in the black ghettos of the South, where his personal style is a measure of what a Negro may become...
...many ways South Viet Nam's Thich Tri Quang personifies the saffron politicians. He entered the Buddhist Institute in Hue when he was 13, has traveled little, speaks neither French nor English. Though not without personal charm and even a certain detached charisma, he has the provincial's distrust of all things Western, refuses to meet with U.S. Ambassador Maxwell Taylor on the ground that he is more comfortable dealing with lesser officials. The son of a farmer in what is now North Viet Nam, he went to Hanoi in his 20s, taught and edited a Buddhist magazine, helped found...
Kennedy Jr. ("John-John"), 3, campaigning. Such is the Kennedy charisma that Bobby has been mobbed wherever he has gone, while Keating has had to beat the bushes for audiences...
Fight for Democracy. The man with the best chance of stopping Allende is Eduardo Frei, 53, the able and eloquent leader of Chile's fast-growing Christian Democratic Party. Chileans are normally reserved about their politicians. But the tall, gaunt, obviously dedicated Frei has a charisma that sends his audience into wild cheers; when he moves about, crowds surround his car, chanting his name, reaching in the window to shake his hand. His party is only eight years old, and yet it emerged from last year's municipal elections with 23% of the total vote to become Chile...
Romney still retains some of the charisma that shone on the cover of Time magazine in his more cocksure days; he runs ahead of Governor Scranton, for instance, in a poll of Republican rank-and-file. However, he has never actively sought the Party's Presidential nomination for 1964, and he has no large organization working for him. Besides, party professionals, who now place him far down the list, have never liked him much anyhow; it is said that they feel he is too independent. But this does not explain much, for while he is certainly not allied with...