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...paid their own way on a chartered Boeing 737, and each day for a week they visited a different big-city black ghetto, from Cleveland to Watts. Organized by Whitney Young, executive director of the Urban League, the tour included Washington Post Editorial Writer Ben Gilbert, Columnists William F. Buckley Jr. and Joseph Kraft, Newsweek Editor Osborne Elliott, John Herbers of the New York Times, and TIME Washington Correspondent Jess Cook. Cook's report...
...most bizarre writer-v.-writer confrontation since Westbrook Pegler took on Drew Pearson. Charging that Gore Vidal waged "a campaign of persistent, false and defamatory allegations, both oral and written, that he is a Nazi," Conservative Columnist William Buckley filed suit asking for $500,000 in damages. The charges stemmed from a fang-and-claw exchange that took place on ABC-TV during the Democratic Convention last August. At one point in the debate, Vidal called Buckley a "crypto-Nazi," to which Buckley replied: "Listen, you queer, stop calling me a crypto-Nazi or I'll sock...
Americans have used the word for only about 60 years. It is frequently applied on the basis of fashion, folklore and snobbery. An invisible admissions committee rules out most conservatives-except, perhaps, a William F. Buckley or a Milton Friedman. "Liberal" and "intellectual" are thought to meld nicely. Among scientists, for example, Liberal J. Robert Oppenheimer met the test, but Conservative Edward Teller did not. If nothing else, Viet Nam has provided a handy screening device. Opposition to the war has clinched the intellectual standing of Senator J. William Fulbright and perhaps even of Dr. Spock. War supporters who have...
Pacifica stations often find themselves set upon from all quarters. They get ultraconservative barbs for broadcasting taped speeches by Malcolm X and the views of Radicals Tom Hayden and Jerry Rubin. Broadcasts by Conservative William Buckley and right-wing "Objectivist" Ayn Rand have stirred anguished complaints from offended liberals...
...reminiscent of William F. Buckley Jr., the elegantly acerbic editor of National Review, who campaigned four years ago as a Conservative candidate for mayor of New York. Asked what he would do if elected, Buckley replied, "Demand a recount...