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...Combined Charities Committee selected the wrong charities for its recommend list. A quick perusal of this list should, however convince even the most tight-walleted that the Committee's fault, if any, was one of omission, not of commission. And the Drive leaders not only permit, encourage students to "write-in" their choice if it is not on the list. This good advice should be taken by all, as should the Drive Committee's other prominent suggestion: that each student give at least $10 to this carefully planned and important once-a-year campaign...
...reason: A write-in vote is only a protest, and if protest could bring freshness to Massachusetts politics, the state would enjoy the most efficient and principled government in the nation. When the choice lies between evils of degree, the voter cannot afford to hobble his sense of discernment with disgust...
...Very Rev. Francis Sayre [Sept. 25] was a write-in candidate for the coming election. I'm sure he would be elected President. I cannot, in good conscience, vote for Goldwater or Johnson, and it would not surprise me at all if a few million voters stay away from the polls...
...light of the powerful opposition, but it was about as narrow as a win can be. To some observers it gave further proof that Barry is a poor vote getter. Indeed, his record in this year's previous primaries was unimpressive. He lost to Lodge's write-in candidacy in New Hampshire. He won Illinois, but his only on-the-ballot opponent, Maine's Margaret Chase Smith, got 26% of the vote. He won Indiana, but Harold Stassen, of all people, got 26%. He won Nebraska, but write-ins gave Nixon 31.4%. He all but withdrew from...
...group who wants to contribute $100 to the Democratic Party in November." For their money, some 6,000 Democrats saw a two-hour show in which Comic Milt Kamen tastelessly joked about the mating habits of the whale, Gregory Peck quipped that this is the year of the "Republican write-in" and the "Democratic shoo-in," Dancer Mitzi Gaynor peered down her middy blouse and asked: "Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? Tricky Dick Nixon knows...