Execution Eve, and Other Contemporary Ballads

In Mr. Buckley's fifth volume of collected material published by Putnam, he is in fine, inimitable form. He calls his book, with a wry look at the deteriorating strategic situation in the Middle East, in Southeast Asia; with the evanescence of democracy in Latin America and Africa; with the inflation and unemployment that lap on a U. S. economy once thought EXECUTION --And Other Contemporary Ballads.