Letters: Nov. 18, 1966

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Elephants "R" in Season

Sir: With Reagan, Romney and Rockefeller triumphant, it seems that Republicans "R" in season!

ALLEN GLASSER Brooklyn

Sir: It seems to me that Nixon deserves a great amount of thanks for his role in helping many Republicans to victory. Nixon is one of the few nationally prominent Republicans who have been interested in unifying the Republican Party, and in the past two years he has been working very hard to achieve this goal. He has campaigned for nearly 100 candidates in 32 states. No other Republican has campaigned so vigorously and traveled so extensively. All the impressive victories may give Romney or Reagan the presidential nomination, but if you think about it, Nixon has won a more impressive victory than anyone. Nixon has unified the G.O.P. across the nation.

RICHARD STRATON Anaheim, Calif.

Sir: Defeated Nov. 8: O'Connor in New York, Brown in California, Lucey in Wisconsin, Douglas in Illinois, Williams in Michigan and Duncan in Oregon. Was it Bobby Kennedy's "Kiss of Death"?

J. C. PIERPONT

Gainesville, Fla.

Sir: Noting that Lurleen Wallace has won the Governor's chair in Alabama, we can only admit that Alabamians have demonstrated true de-mock-racy in action. JAMES S. DISTELHORST '69 RICHARD C. KOMSON '69 Georgetown University Washington, D.C.

Sir: Hey, if Lurleen was a dime store clerk who married at 16, do we have a high school dropout for Governor now?

J. STONE Huntsville, Ala.

Sir: Our news media will not be content unless they are stirring up race controversy. I voted for Edward Brooke not because he is a Negro but because I felt he was more his own man than Peabody. I tried to use an open mind on this, and I am a Southerner.

By the same token, it is regrettable that commentators felt it necessary to label every conservative candidate who won a "right-winger," a "segregationist" or a profiteer from "white backlash." Newsmen cannot grasp the fact that we are not all liberals with Socialistic tendencies like themselves, but just plain conservatives who still believe in people doing for themselves.

CAROLYN P. NEMROW Boston

Sir: Why not hand-pick a few of the elite to vote in each precinct or ward, give these results to the news services and let them pick the winner for us? Wouldn't that save a lot of people the time and effort it takes to cast their ballots?

Every individual has a right to vote. At 6 p.m. a news bulletin declared Docking the Governor of Kansas. Do newsmen mean to tell me that this doesn't affect the voting? It would seem to me this is a great disservice to the electorate and grossly unfair. To predict a trend is one thing, but to come out and say there is a winner when all the polls aren't even closed is not freedom of reporting. It is license.

FRANCES L. CLEMENTS Topeka, Kans.

Of Pike & Dogma

Sir: Thank you very much for your cover story [Nov. 11] on Bishop James Albert Pike, a man whom I greatly admire for his courage and convictions. It is high time that someone made people think for themselves, instead of letting the church do it for them.

MRS. GEORGE LEWIS Huntington, Conn.