Word: extrovert
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...about shipboard sex with Howard Hughes. Porn Queen Amber Hunt and Mobster Mickey Cohen both graced one of last week's shows with filmed interviews, she on what thrills, he on forged wills. The zest of MetroNews comes from the ham and hard-boiled-egg match-up of extrovert Anchor Man Charles Rowe, 37, and Reporter-Inquisitor Charles Ashman, 40. A bionic-perfect baritone, Rowe is the ideal foil for Ashman, a sardonic "everyman" who shows up each night with yesterday's stubble. Operating in a seedy city-room set torn from The Front Page, they go about...
Nixon, the very private man, is also taken with Connally, the jaunty, commanding extrovert. The President delights in having the Secretary preside over private gatherings, which he does frequently in Washington, Key Biscayne and the Western White House at San Clemente. Nixon sometimes telephones Connally three or four times a day. Says one White House aide: "The President is simply in awe of him." Adds another staffer: "Connally is one of the few whom Nixon is willing to discuss a lot of things with?politics, foreign relations, domestic problems...
...version that both stimulates and clears the mind." Yet his interest in the arena does not fade when the World Series ends. He likes hockey, and is the kind of fan who practically joins in from his seat. "When he watches a hockey game, he participates as an extrovert would," says Irving Felt, chairman of Madison Square Garden. "Some of the wildest reactions come from people who are not outgoing by nature. Nixon is spontaneous...
Badly as they were needed, however, dollars were easier to win than the trust of white constituents, who comprise half of Gary and 66% of Cleveland. Stokes, an attractive extrovert, encouraged any citizen to bring his gripes to the mayor's office-so much so, he jokes, that the practice has "become like a parody on the old Negro spiritual Take Your Troubles to the Lord. Everyone brings his troubles to city hall...
...Eisenhower years, Allen and John Foster, his elder brother and the Secretary of State, played a predominant role in national security affairs. Presbyterians both, the two were very different in temperament and style. Foster, who died in 1959, was a stiff, ascetic intellectual. Pipe-puffing Allen was a charming extrovert whose laugh would rock a room. To Foster, the more ideological of the two, Communism was a morally repugnant philosophy; to Allen, more practical, the Soviet Union was a powerful political and military enemy...