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WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY, U.S. columnist and editor (National Review): Lincoln comes always to mind, because with all that we know now about his flawed historical perspective, the rhythms of his spirit took the soldiers and the poets through the crises of a Civil War. I wish we had, too, some of the Whiggish optimism of Theodore Roosevelt. It may not be our manifest destiny to conquer Khe Sanh, but it ought to be ours to cultivate liberty and subdue the state...
...Conservatism and The Politics of Surrender and in newspaper editorials of consistently high quality. Chairman of the American Conservative Union, Texas-born Evans developed his philosophy at Yale in the 1950s. He refined it in various journalistic jobs: editor of a short-lived special Louisville, Ky., edition of William Buckley's National Review; managing editor of Human Events; and 15 years with the Indianapolis News as chief editorial writer, news editor and, since February, as senior editor...
...Westbury, L.I. De Pauw's Masses are also broadcast on 20 radio stations coast-to-coast. Another small coterie of believers, who want to make the U.S. a "Christian Commonwealth" (i.e., a Catholic one), clusters around L. Brent Bozell, brother-in-law of Newspaper Columnist William F. Buckley. In his magazine Triumph (circ. 5,000) Bozell has been fighting the traditionalist battle since 1966 but has proved too extreme and eccentric to gain many followers...
...skills demonstrated by the Harvard team in winning this championship encompass qualities very different from the debater's stereotyped image as a William F. Buckley-type of verbal gymnast. Instead, academic debate has been evolving toward emphasis on such scholarly values as thoroughness of research and analytic depth. Although presentation is still important, academic debate today is much more a practical exercise in the techniques of evaluating public policy than a contest in rhetorical and persuasive skills. Ideally, tournament debate may be viewed as a laboratory in which alternative ideas generated by the social sciences are subjected to the test...
...recommended that Nixon, if his position continued to deteriorate, "ought to consider resigning as a possible option." One liberal Republican, Senator Richard Schweiker of Pennsylvania, broke completely with the President and became the third G.O.P. Senator to call for Nixon's resignation, joining Edward Brooke of Massachusetts and James Buckley of New York. (See story page...