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Conservative Pundit William F. Buckley Jr. has long had an unbridled passion for writing machines. He once mailed an unsolicited testimonial to the president of Smith-Corona, praising the company's $170 portable as "the most wonderful electric typewriter" he had ever used. Now the syndicated columnist, author of 24 books and editor of the National Review, has found a new object for his techno-literary affections. Buckley has shifted his allegiance to word processors, demonstrating his loyalty by accumulating eight of the machines and scattering them among his offices in New York City, Connecticut and Rougemont, Switzerland...
Hornik and FlorCruz provided reporting for Associate Editor Jim Kelly's story on the impact of Deng's reforms on three regions in China, and they also ferreted out biographical details for Associate Editor William Doerner's profile of the Chinese leader. For Associate Editor George Russell's story on reforms in other Marxist economies, Eastern Europe Bureau Chief Kenneth Banta supplied reporting and analysis from Hungary and Yugoslavia. Heading the Man of the Year reporter-researchers was Helen Sen Doyle, who has studied Russian at universities in Leningrad and Moscow...
Hooray for William F. Buckley Jr. and his enthusiasm for the word processor [COMPUTERS, Dec. 9]. Who says you cannot teach an old conservative new tricks? The ease and lack of frustration that come from writing on a computer make the machine ideal. When I went back to school to finish an electronics degree, I purchased a word processor. Not only was I more creative, but writing became fun instead of drudgery. Thomas M. Nathe Salem...
...world-class smoker, lighting one Panda-brand cigarette after another in his meetings and audiences. Deng recently declared to former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, "Mine is a hands-off policy, I let other people do things." On the visible evidence, that is just another sly Deng understatement. --By William R. Doerner. Reported by David Aikman/Washington and Jaime A. FlorCruz/Paifang
...With wide-open nomination battles all but certain in both major parties, the end of 1986 will usher in a two-year political hullabaloo that will increasingly drown out more measured discussions of how to handle the deficit, taxes and the critical challenges of the nuclear age. --By William R. Doerner. Reported by Alessandra Stanley/Washington