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Homogeneously Conservative. Printed in 38 charter papers, Buckley's first column must have seemed something of a dud. Its target was a pamphlet. Communism: Threat to Freedom, issued last March by the Rev. John F. Cronin, S.S.,* of the National Catholic Welfare Conference in Washington. To Buckley. Father Cronin's main point-that the Communist threat is more external than internal-seemed hardly worth arguing ("the distinction has become old-fashioned and increasingly useless''). The columnist contented himself with an attack on the value of God as the Western world's ally. Wrote Buckley...
...Angeles police and FBI agents recovered fragments of galvanized pipe, discovered that detonators had been made from spark plugs and radio switches. The type and technique matched those of recent bombs left outside two Los Angeles buildings. One exploded at the headquarters for the California Communist Party. A dud was discovered at the office of the United Nations Association. Said Police Inspector Ed Walker: "It could be a nut. Or somebody with a real cause...
...years, Kirkland has had a flaming rivalry with Dud Hallagan of Dartmouth. Hallagan has always defeated Kirkland in the 440 in track, and Kirkland has always beaten his rival in the 600. Hallaga, though, has come out on top in cross country; two years ago, his victory over Kirkland was a deciding factor in a Dartmouth...
...post, Ambassador Frederick E. Nolting Jr. was riding to his official residence for lunch when two men hurled a homemade hand grenade onto the roof of his car, fled on a motorcycle as Nolting's bodyguard pumped three shots in their direction. Since the bomb was a dud, Nolting went home to lunch unharmed...
...shot of which misfires disastrously. The hit--and it's an Ole Bullseye--is Bob Hope's and Lucille Ball's quite wondorously funny The Facts of Life. The gentleman and lady named are prey to wanderlust; but their exploits are infinitely more humorous than amorous. As for the dud shot, Ask Any Girl, well, it ought to be pretty good. Shirley MacLaine and David Niven are attractive and agreeable people, but the script of this CinemaScopic, Metrocolored drivel reduces the pair to mere boobish blather. Various shorts and a Sylvester cartoon are thrown in free...