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...LIBERATION News Service appeared in the fall of 1967 as what seemed to be an underground, or radical, counterpart to the AP or UPI. From its office in Washington, it sent out stories to hundreds of underground papers across the country-stories about students, blacks, dissident GI's, the War, the draft, Chicanos, drugs, astrology, and just about everything else. Ideologically independent of any single faction of the Left, the LNS served to foster the notion that there was still such a thing as The Movement, a popular misconception which led to Chicago's Yippie hysteria and the subsequent Chicago...
Later Wednesday, the wire services released their weekly New England football polls and Harvard was listed fourth in both. The top three were the same in both the AP and UPI rankings, with Boton College heading the list, followed by Dartmouth and Yale...
...Kirkhorn, Milwaukee Journal: Gerry C. Lafollette, Indianapolis News: John R. Pekkanen, Life; Richard J. Pothier, Miami Herald; Daniel Rapoport, UPI: Jack Schwatz, Newsday; James D. Squires, Nashville Tennessean: Josephine D. Thomas. Cincinnati Post and Times-Star; Ronald R. Walker, San Juan Star; and Jerome R. Watson, Chicago Sun-Times...
...treetops at Hong Ngu, a small river town in South Viet Nam. It was a big occasion, but the refugees took note of it only by doing what Asians do every day at sunrise. Husbands packed up the night's bedding. A woman washed clothes with a UPI naked, screaming baby clutching at her blouse. Two children had been born during the 20-hour trip...
...Cambridge policeman pulled UPI photographer William Manning from a phone booth in Harvard Square, clubbed him to the ground, kicked him, and left him lying in the street. Manning was not seriously injured...