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...WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY...
...evidence of William F. Buckley Jr.'s account of his life afloat, it can be categorically stated that the author neither now nor ever has believed that the earth is flat...
...year-old semanticist in California, a former astronaut in New Mexico, a rancher in Wyoming and a tax lawyer in Utah. All are conservative Republicans, and all unceremoniously ousted liberal Democratic Senators-including two three-termers-from their seats. But the Senate's only Conservative, James Buckley of New York, was swamped by a left-of-center Democrat. So were right-leaning Republicans in Maryland and Tennessee, and Nebraska elected its first Democratic Senator in four decades...
...York City's Hell's Kitchen, made his way to Harvard, became one of the nation's leading urbanologists, served four Presidents, and fulminated against the Arabs and the Third World as U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Democrat Moynihan won over softspoken, engaging Republican-Conservative James Buckley, who leaves the Senate after one competent but unremarkable term, by a solid 54%-46% majority. That was because the suicidal tendencies of the faction-ridden state Democratic Party were largely overcome, hostility from blacks diminished, and a shortage of money (for more than a month Moynihan was unable...
...York is hospitable ground for Moynihan's New Deal-ish stands on unemployment, national health insurance and other social legislation. Buckley was never able to shake his image as a far right winger so wedded to an anti-Government philosophy that he even opposed federal aid to financially strapped New York City in the early stages of its fiscal crisis...