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...observers doubt that some day, probably no later than 1972, the junior Senator from New York will try to cash in those coins for the presidency of the U.S. Conservative Columnist William F. Buckley Jr., with an almost perceptible shudder, talks of "the inevitability of Bobby." Playwright-Novelist Gore Vidal, a longtime foe, protests that "we now have a three-party system in America-the Democrats, the Republicans and the Kennedys." Cries Los Angeles' Mayor Sam Yorty, who had an acrimonious confrontation with Bobby during last month's hearings on the plight of U.S. cities: "Bobby Kennedy...
...Administration was last month's nationwide Gallup poll. In February, Lyndon led Bobby by a comfortable 2 to 1 among Democrats. Six months later, the Democratic ratings were 40% for Bobby to 38% for Lyndon, and 38% to 24% among independents-a result that prompted Gadfly Bill Buckley's crack that the Kennedy clan must have purchased the Gallup poll...
...blueblood son of Tiffany Board Chairman Walter Hoving, and descendant of Washington's second postmaster-general, he grew up in Central Park, meanwhile being bounced from the Buckley School (Lindsay's alma mater). He was later thrown out of Phillips Exeter for punching his Latin teacher, finally made Princeton via Hotchkiss, where his temper cooled and his intellect sharpened, and he graduated summa cum laude. After a hitch in the Marine Corps, he got a Ph.D. in art history and was snapped up by the Met, only to find himself in the last mayoralty campaign drafting position papers...
...tapes. In December, RCA Victor will introduce "minimum concentration" language courses, plans later to bring out quiz games and storytelling tapes to pacify children on long trips. Doctors use the tapes to keep up with the medical news, traveling salesmen to hear pep talks from company executives. Editor William Buckley listens to Shakespeare's plays when driving to work; Jerry Lewis listens to scripts en route to the studio. Hundreds of players have been installed in powerboats and airplanes, as well as in funeral limousines, which broadcast hymns at the grave site. Meanwhile, back on the road, auto-tape...
...years as union president-and they know and appreciate it. While the A.F.L.-C.l.O. has become sluggish, the Teamsters have expanded (to 1.7 million members, the nation's largest union group), enjoy steadily improving wages and benefits. One of the laudatory messages to the convention came from Tom Buckley of Maiden, Mass.: "I'm enjoying the Fourth with my family as a $200-a-week truck driver. Continued success and best wishes...