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Write-in votes are tallied last of all and they usually aren’t very interesting. Well, in the New Hampshire primary the first part is true but definitely not the second. Spiro Agnew got more write-in votes than anybody in New Hampshire history—45,000. He got more votes than Muskie, more votes than McGovern, many more votes than McCloskey and many more votes than Ashbrook. Nixon, of all the candidates whose names were printed on the ballot, was the only one who beat Agnew.

It now appears that Clifford Irving will get off with some kind of token punishment—perhaps five years, in which case he could be out in less than three; perhaps, if he gives back the money, a suspended sentence. We hear he wants the former—just time enough to polish off the first draft of his stupendous new book, How To Steal $650,000, Win Friends, Influence Blondes and Maintain an Air of Cultivated Detachment All at the Same Time, without Yoga, and sell it to three publishers. At once.

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Write-in votes are tallied last of all and they usually aren’t very interesting. Well, in the New Hampshire primary the first part is true but definitely not the second. Spiro Agnew got more write-in votes than anybody in New Hampshire history—45,000. He got more votes than Muskie, more votes than McGovern, many more votes than McCloskey and many more votes than Ashbrook. Nixon, of all the candidates whose names were printed on the ballot, was the only one who beat Agnew.

It now appears that Clifford Irving will get off with some kind of token punishment—perhaps five years, in which case he could be out in less than three; perhaps, if he gives back the money, a suspended sentence. We hear he wants the former—just time enough to polish off the first draft of his stupendous new book, How To Steal $650,000, Win Friends, Influence Blondes and Maintain an Air of Cultivated Detachment All at the Same Time, without Yoga, and sell it to three publishers. At once.