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WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY, U.S. columnist and editor (National Review): Lincoln comes always to mind, because with all that we know now about his flawed historical perspective, the rhythms of his spirit took the soldiers and the poets through the crises of a Civil War. I wish we had, too, some of the Whiggish optimism of Theodore Roosevelt. It may not be our manifest destiny to conquer Khe Sanh, but it ought to be ours to cultivate liberty and subdue the state...
...Masses each Sunday in Westbury, L.I. De Pauw's Masses are also broadcast on 20 radio stations coast-to-coast. Another small coterie of believers, who want to make the U.S. a "Christian Commonwealth" (i.e., a Catholic one), clusters around L. Brent Bozell, brother-in-law of Newspaper Columnist William F. Buckley. In his magazine Triumph (circ. 5,000) Bozell has been fighting the traditionalist battle since 1966 but has proved too extreme and eccentric to gain many followers...
...talks with Kissinger have been indispensable to reporters in an otherwise hostile Administration. Yet sometimes a Kissinger briefing edges closer to what is known in White House parlance as "stroking." During the Viet Nam War, for example, Kissinger would tell Hawkish Columnist Joseph Alsop that the North Vietnamese understood only force, and Eastern Liberal James Reston that he was straining to keep the Pentagon hawks at bay. Aboard his Air Force 707 on an early round of his Middle East peace shuttle, Kissinger would shuffle to the press cabin in the rear to tell the 14 reporters in his entourage...
...mystique and accomplishments have become the object of a kind of revisionist press. The strongest current example is former New York Timesman Tad Szulc's sometimes harsh account of Kissinger's Viet Nam negotiation in the current Foreign Policy (TIME, June 10). In Kissinger's defense, Columnist Marquis Childs complains that to cross-examine Kissinger about wiretaps in a press conference is to act as if "diplomacy should be treated like the police beat." But if the taps flap helps make journalistic skepticism respectable again where Kissinger and his considerable achievements are concerned, the special relationship between...
Died. George Frazier, 63, acerbic, eccentric newspaper columnist; of lung cancer; in Cambridge, Mass. A self-styled Brahmin, Frazier was the Harvard-honed son of a fire inspector. After making his name as a jazz critic, ubiquitous freelance and LIFE writer, the widely read gadfly went on to ramble polysyllabically about style, taste and whatever else he fancied in his Boston Herald and, later, Boston Globe columns. Proud of his image as a professional snob-he proclaimed the common man an "ill-clad, ill-spoken hooligan"-Frazier brought his own hot dogs to baseball games and named among...