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...stalemate is to be broken before classes resume, the only hope seems to lie with the faculty. An Executive Committee of the Faculty, officially recognized by trustees and the administration, has appointed a fact-finding commission headed by former U.S. Solicitor General Archibald Cox. While the independent Cox commission studies the causes of the campus disorders, the faculty committee is debating the final form of proposals for change. It is expected to suggest the creation of a faculty senate, a more representative student assembly, and a "collegium" composed of students, faculty, administrators and neighborhood groups. But other faculty members contend...
Rocky's camp countered with a commissioned sampling by another veteran pollster, Archibald Crossley, who had surveyed the nation's nine major industrial states and found that the New Yorker could easily coast past both the Democrats, while Nixon would tie with McCarthy and defeat Humphrey by only three points...
...FESTIVAL. "Carl Sandburg Remembered" includes eulogies by President Johnson and Poets Archibald MacLeish and Mark Van Doren and recordings by the late great poet himself...
...Archibald MacLeish...
...pollsters rose to fame and influence on the basis of two celebrated debacles. During the 1936 presidential campaign, the old Literary Digest ran a mail poll and was wrong, while three more scientific pollsters were right. Those three-George H. Gallup, Elmo Roper and Archibald Crossley-conducted interviews among a predetermined mix of ethnic, income and age groups that seemed representative of the U.S. population. The other turning point was in 1948, when the pollsters again used this "quota system" of sampling-but were wrong. The U.S. had become so complex that picking just the right population...