Word: tarheels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During a speech at the University of North Carolina, members of the Tarheel student body thought they detected a familiar ring. Scheduled to speak on "Freedom and the Welfare State," Right-Winging William F. Buckley Jr., 37. instead read an article he had written for Playboy, in which he paeaned his own brand of conservatism, scourged left-leaning Author Norman Mailer, and cast doubt on the virility of Critic Kenneth Tynan. Agreeing that Buckley had used his text once too often (his fee was $1,000 for the same lecture in Chicago, another $3,500 from Playboy}, the speech...