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PRECONVENTION SPECIAL OF DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION (ABC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). This first convention warm-up session features commentaries by William F. Buckley Jr., Gore Vidal, Howard K. Smith and William H. Lawrence...
...sketch, though, while playing an uncommitted delegate wooed by party girls at a hotel pool, Art got off his best line: "If you can't stand the heat, get out of the cabana." ABC scheduled nightly debates between the self-styled "Odd Couple," Conservative Editor William Buckley Jr. and Novelist Gore Vidal, whose latest book is the sex farce, Myra Breckinridge. The confrontation was diverting as an exhibition of personal antagonism, but the political issues were almost entirely lost in the scuffle. A sample exchange...
...Buckley: I don't think it is right to present Mr. Gore Vidal as a political commentator of any consequence, since he is nothing more than a literary producer of perverted Hollywood-minded prose...
Vidal: Mr. Buckley, with his enormous and thrilling charm, manages to get away from the issues. You certainly must maintain yourself, Bill, to be the Marie Antoinette of the right wing...
...William F. Buckley Jr., the arch, conservative editor of National Review, liberal Republican Nelson Rockefeller is so far out in left field that he's out side the G.O.P. park. Yet every time Buckley opened a newspaper, there was Rocky's determined visage adorning a full-page ad filled with short-sentence solutions to the Viet Nam war, riots in the cities and inflation. Buckley finally asked Associate Editor C. H. Simonds to see if he could outdo the Manhattan agency of Jack Tinker & Partners Inc., which supplied the Rocky ads. The result, in the current National Review...