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...peeves of Bill Buckley's conservative National Review is Linus Pauling, the Nobel-prizewinning biochemist who espouses no end of peace causes and regularly attacks U.S. foreign policy. In a strident article in 1962, the Review accused Pauling of "acting as megaphone for Soviet policy" and lending his "name, energy, voice and pen to one after another Soviet-serving enterprise." A second Review article took note of the number of libel suits brought by Pauling and derided the "brazen attempts at intimidation of the free press by one of the nation's leading fellow travelers...
...Robert Kennedy a grave injustice in comparing him to William Buckley [April 8]. Buckley's "devastating repartee" is devastating only as a revelation of his florid rhetoric and flabby thinking. For all his egomaniacal viciousness, the vocabulary he frequently misuses and the logic he invariably abuses, I doubt that Buckley has contributed one original idea to public discussion or performed one act of public service. Why should a man of accomplishment debate a nonentity? Or, in Buckley's idiom, why use a saber to chop hamburger...
...Question: What's yellow on the inside, pink on the outside and makes you laugh like hell? Answer: the idea of Kennedy's attempting to debate Buckley...
...Buckley, whose forte is devastating repartee delivered in a droll drawl, intends to conduct a debate with or without Kennedy. Indeed, he keeps writing about Kennedy in his column, "On the Right," carried in 148 papers. Last week he had a piece titled "The Inevitability of Bobby Kennedy," which reported with some humor and without alarm that Bobby is headed for higher things...
...indestructible," wrote Buckley. "He can say silly things, as he did all over Latin America, and somehow, not be taken as silly. He can say outrageous things, as for instance that he would not object to American blood flowing into Viet Cong veins, and when the public winces, he will issue a torrent of explanations and modifications which are gratefully and instantly accepted, and emerge as the forward-looking thinker. He can back the machine and somehow escape the normal consequences. It is, so far, a winning combination...