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...Well, that finished up Continental. Then United Press stepped in. When UP stepped in they took over everything, as they anticipated doing, they took over the whole thing. UP became strong, in fact UP became one of the biggest in the whole country. Then they absorbed, gobbled International, became UPI, and then they controlled the whole thing. I went down to get a UP wire service later on, but they wouldn't sell...
What do all these polls mean anyway, when CBS, AP and UPI can come up with different answers? After all, there is no sampling error--they are polling all 1333 delegates. And why the small shifts every day? It is because one day, a poor defenseless woman delegate is cornered by three aggressive Nixon aides and practically battered into switching her allegiance. By the next day, Rockefeller would have heard about this, and his men would go and batter her back. In between, she may tell AP she favors Nixon, UPI she favors Rockefeller, and CBS she's uncommitted...
Just as the candidate played ping-pong last week with the Harris and Gallup popularity polls, they are playing this week with the AP, UPI, and CBS delegate polls...
TRACK & FIELD THe Black Boycott At California's San Jose State College a few years back, Harry Edwards, now 25, was quite an athlete: captain of the basketball team, school record holder in the discus, and such a hot upi prospect in football that several pro teams made him offers. Edwards, a tall (6 ft. 8 in.), brainy Negro, passed them all up to become an assistant professor of sociology at virtually all-white San Jose because "scholarship was my longest suit." Not quite. For the past six months, Harry's long suit has been Black Power...
Louis Cassel, Senior Editor of UPI admitted that newspapers, by running stories of the horrors of the ghettos, made Negroes feel that "they were obligated to riot...