Word: instinctiveness
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...Governor Brown is sincerely interested in people and their activities. He has an instinct for pleasing people even when they realize he is trying to please them. After the time allotted for the visit, the Governor's aide stood up and wordlessly began putting on his coat. "Oh, is it time to leave?" Governor Brown sounded truly disappointed. It was difficult to decide whether the aide's getting up so that the Governor appeared to linger was a gimmick...
...have scored high with the Kennedy Administration's programs. For a House majority was simply against them. As for the charge that McCormack's knowledge of foreign affairs is sketchy, not even he would claim to be an expert (he has never been outside the U.S.); by instinct, he has followed the internationalist policies of Presidents Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower and Kennedy...
...change in pace of the council reflects the change in Roman Catholic leadership that took place between sessions. Vatican II was first summoned by that quiet revolutionary, Pope John XXIII, who intuitively felt the need for an aggiornamento-a modernization of the church. His instinct was dramatically proved right during the first session, when a majority of the prelates rejected the standpat schemata on liturgy, the sources of revelation and the nature of the church proposed by the conservative Roman Curia...
President Lyndon Baines Johnson, known by many as a "liberal by instinct and a conservative by geography," was born near Johnson City, Texas, 55 years ago. He entered the House of Representatives in 1937, winning the seat by a margin of 87 votes and earning the nickname of "landslide" Johnson...
Brave Banker Beckhardt has also gone all out for instinct. Trumpeted he last week, in words that would freeze the mind of any FHA man: "Castellaras is a village of foetuses...