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Unfortunately, the public's answers can be as misleading as the questions. Ashamed to admit racial or religious prejudice, people who answer polls sometimes resort to artful lying. Though 80% tell interviewers that they will vote, only 65% do so. To prevent bias, interviewers ask trip-up questions ("When did you vote last?" "Where are you registered?"), and toss out roughly one-fifth of the respondents on the ground that they are unlikely to vote...
...depicting Barry Goldwater as a paranoiac, a latent homosexual and a latter-day Hitler, was simply fair comment on a presidential candidate's fitness for office (TIME, May 17). It was of no importance, they claimed, that only 20% of the psychiatrists they polled had even bothered to answer their admittedly loaded questionnaire. Nor did it matter that more than half of those who did answer disagreed with the diagnosis Fact published. Moreover, Ginzburg and Boroson did not think it wrong to alter some of the doctors' statements. "I thought it was eminently fair editing," said Ginzburg...
...mandate for renewal," he said, but not just any mandate?it would have to be decisive. "Should your answer be no, it is self-evident that I shall not assume my functions for much longer." The strains of the Marseillaise sounded. But already, outside in the streets of Paris, the antiphonal words of the Internationale were echoing as, with heightened fury, the rioters hit the streets once more...
Miss a day with the conventional birth control pill and maternity may result. Researchers-not to mention users-have long hoped for something with a longer-lasting effect. Now the Upjohn Co. believes that its drug Depo-Provera may be the answer. It has been used for treatment of uterine disorders, but one of its side effects proved to be infertility lasting a year or more. This is understandable, since the drug's basic ingredient is a synthetic female hormone that is also the main component of Upjohn's birth control pills. Last week the company announced that...
...incense. As the cardinals reach the stage, they pause before the bishop and the priest: "Wilt thou accept pontificality?" Rolfe turns to kneel to his bishop, so unexpectedly chosen, only to find that the prelate is already kneeling to him. "Wilt thou accept pontificality?" The bishop whispers: "The answer is 'Volo' or 'Nolo.' " For an instant, terrified gratification flashes across Rolfe's face. Then the thin shoulders square: "Volo...