Word: charm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kissinger still takes time to trade quips with the press on his tours. The smiles and the charm are there, but there is a new caution, an extra moment of thought before he delivers his carefully phrased answers. There is less time for sleep (five hours a night) and more demands for him to fulfill the protocol role of office. The playboy of the West Wing has become the serious statesman...
...Ulster's new coalition, last week: "You went in angry to see him, and you always came out wondering why you never got the boot in." Added Deputy Chief Executive Gerry Fitt, leader of the Social Democratic and Labor Party: "He had an effective English slice of Irish charm...
...spent virtually his entire career in the back corridors of parliamentary life. A former Scots Guards officer, Whitelaw was raised on his grandfather's estate in Scotland, sent to Winchester and Cambridge, where he "got his blue" in golf. At 55, he has a reserve of charm as large as his hulking, 220-lb. frame and a rumpled warmth about him. His suits never hang quite right, and his booming voice sometimes takes on a pained edge, as if its owner were mortally wounded. The overall effect is immensely winning. Admits one member of Labor's Shadow Cabinet...
...Woman of the Year I nominate Julie Nixon Eisenhower. Her courage, integrity, charm and poise overshadow all who are involved in Watergate or the Senate hearings...
...ironic falsity of that phrase. There is a strong sense in his summation that the U.S. is a kind of Distant Early Warning system for the rest of the world. His book, in fact, has the feel of a memorial, and perhaps that is a key to its charm. Cooke's America is really a handful of well-polished touchstones for those who know this country's history well...