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New York, Oct. 25—Mr. Andrew Stein is a young New York assemblyman of considerable ambition and uncertain taste. He is devoted to fashionable causes, preferably in fashionable settings. A few years ago he presided over a party in Southampton for the benefit of César Chavez’ union. At that party he served champagne, which is harvested by Frenchmen who are paid 50 cents per hour, and urged the socialites in attendance to boycott grapes, harvested by Americans who are paid $2 per hour.

Now Mr. Stein has sent a furious letter to Senator James L. Buckley, protesting his position on school lunch money. As one would expect, the sainted junior senator from New York does not reply to apoplectic communications. But Assemblyman Stein sent a copy of his letter—one has a paralyzing suspicion that he thinks it clever—to me; and we workhorses of this world have to acknowledge our mail, so here we go.

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William F. Buckley Jr.

William F. Buckley Jr. founded National Review magazine in 1955.

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New York, Oct. 25—Mr. Andrew Stein is a young New York assemblyman of considerable ambition and uncertain taste. He is devoted to fashionable causes, preferably in fashionable settings. A few years ago he presided over a party in Southampton for the benefit of César Chavez’ union. At that party he served champagne, which is harvested by Frenchmen who are paid 50 cents per hour, and urged the socialites in attendance to boycott grapes, harvested by Americans who are paid $2 per hour.

Now Mr. Stein has sent a furious letter to Senator James L. Buckley, protesting his position on school lunch money. As one would expect, the sainted junior senator from New York does not reply to apoplectic communications. But Assemblyman Stein sent a copy of his letter—one has a paralyzing suspicion that he thinks it clever—to me; and we workhorses of this world have to acknowledge our mail, so here we go.