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...M.I.T. weekly series will close on Oct. 27 with a meeting with the Rev. Robert F. Drinan, peace candidate for Congress in the 3rd District...
Newton, where Democrat The Rev. Robert F. Drinan, S.J., dean of the Boston College Law School, is opposing Republican State Rep. John A. McGlennon and incumbent Rhillip Philbin, who announced yesterday he will run as a "sticker" (write-in) candidate...
...outspoken dove, Drinan blended new technology and causes with the old techniques of ward politics. Fifty young campaign workers oversaw a house-by-house survey that reached 75% of the Democratic voters in his district that includes liberal Boston suburbs and rural upstate towns. The canvassers fed the householders' views on the issues into computers, then followed up with mailings. When an election-day rainstorm held the vote down, Drinan's staff assembled 250 student volunteers in an hour's time and put them to work driving the computer-identified faithful to the polls...
Vain Reminder. Drinan's well-honed campaign was made possible by the peace movement's decision not to hobble its effectiveness by splitting its votes among several dove candidates, as had happened in 1968. A "citizens' caucus" nominated Drinan, then threw money and volunteers behind him. Drinan, 49, conducted an expensive television campaign and was photographed with such prominent personalities as New York Mayor John Lindsay and former Attorney General Ramsey Clark...
Philbin, 72, barely bestirred himself. He relied on the state's tradition of renominating House incumbents. He also reminded voters that, as No. 2 man on the Armed Services Committee, he attracts defense spending to the district. That approach had been effective in the past, but not against Drinan's young machine. The count was Drinan, 28,612, Philbin...