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California Pollster Mervin Field is following a trend toward "randomization" in selecting interviewees. He divides California into six regions, on which he collects basic social and economic data. Within each region he assigns interviewers to a few blocks in each county, instructs them to canvass, for example, every third house from the corner, ignoring race, religion, age and income. He insists only that an equal number of men and women be polled. Such random selection, the theory goes, will ensure a good cross section. Declares Field: "You either put your faith in probabilities...
Dick Szum in the 165-pound class contributed the only total demolition job of the day by pounding a game Todd Cobey to the canvass three times in the first round for a TKO victory...
Sonny says he will end the "rabbit hunt" no later than round three. Clay claims he will drop 'the ugly bear" in the eighth and that if, by some twist of fate, Liston should win, "the prettiest ever" will crawl right across the canvass and kiss the champ's big feet. Liston, with characteristic dry humor, replies that he will be fucked away in bed by that time while Clay will just be awakening fom enforced slumber...
...Barry was confused, so were almost all other Republicans when talking about next year's presidential possibilities. Yet a state-by-state canvass of G.O.P. leaders led to some general conclusions. Among them...
Ford has asked the Harvard Council for Undergraduate Affairs to study the ways middle-group courses might be improved by section men and "to canvass undergraduate opinion on what small group courses should...