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...would vou wager CBS's ownership of the New York Yankees figured in its coverage of the baseball players' strike? You can speculate on the answers all you want for you are not likely to find them reported by the press itself. (One exception you shouldn't miss is Sanford Ungar's account on the publication of the Pentagon Papers in the May issue of Esquire...
...fight between Sanford the Southern progressive and Wallace the Southern populist is being billed as the "Dixie Classic." To counter the mounting threat posed by Sanford, Wallace last week made a hasty visit to Statesville, N.C., where he figures to capitalize on a school integration controversy that has plagued the city...
...Sanford, meanwhile, is busily canvassing up to eight counties a day, setting up "listening posts" to hear the gripes of voters. He tells the North Carolinians that Wallace is a phony populist who does not tax the savings and loan institutions in his home state, that corporate taxes are comparatively low in Alabama and that middle-income citizens carry the brunt of the taxes. Sanford, a champion of civil rights who sent his children to integrated public schools as early as a decade ago, preaches: "While Wallace stood in the schoolhouse door, I was opening the doors to education...
Though some political cynics dismiss him as a stalking horse for his friend Hubert Humphrey, who is not entered in the North Carolina primary, Sanford swears that he is serious in his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. Just as seriously, he says that if he loses to Wallace in North Carolina he will drop out of the race and return to the relative quiet of academe...
...could be a close race; polls show Wallace, Sanford and Edmund Muskie far ahead of Shirley Chisholm and Henry Jackson who, like Muskie, is not campaigning in the state though he is on the ballot. On May 6 North Carolina voters will indicate whether, as one national Democratic leader contends, many Southerners "are sick of having the rest of the country think the South is all like George Wallace...