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...Angriest of all are the John Birchers, whose leader, Robert Welch, was eviscerated by Buckley in a series of articles. As a result, even though Buckley works are still carried in Birch bookshops, Buckley now receives much more hate mail from the far right than the far left. A wall of his office in Review's midtown Manhattan building is papered with nasty letters. "Buckley's articles cost the Birchers their respectability with conservatives," says Richard Nixon. "I couldn't have accomplished that. Liberals couldn't have, either...
...angriest editorials it has printed in years, the Times of London asked: "If Colonel Lohan was cleared, why refer to the inquiry? If it found against him, then how did he remain in his post until 1967?" Against tactics like Wilson's, said the Times, "so pitiless, so adroit, so lacking in scruple, so strongly enhanced by the authority of a Prime Minister's office, no man's character is safe...
...miles away from the battlefield on which he fell, his countrymen debate the course of the war he fought in," said the President. "The debate will go on, and it will have its price. It is a price our democracy must be prepared to pay, and that the angriest voices of dissent should be prepared to acknowledge...
...dismiss Malcolm X with such facility is to do him an injustice. His was an extraordinarily elusive personality; his volatility and suspicion of all white men combined to give him the reputation of being the "angriest Negro in America." His character demanded total commitment, and so, when introduced to Muslim teachings and to Elijah Muhammed, he devoted himself almost compulsively to the religion and its leader...
Maybe he was right the first time. Next day in Milwaukee, Circuit Judge Elmer W. Roller, 64, finally handed down a decision in one of the angriest and most complicated rhubarbs in years: the 18-month argument between baseball's moguls and the state of Wisconsin over whether or not the Braves had a right to forsake Milwaukee for the greener lettuce in Atlanta. Judge Roller, a pretty hot fan himself, said no. After a six-week trial and 7,000 pages of testimony, he ruled that the National League had violated Wisconsin's "little Sherman" antitrust laws...