Word: eighting
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When each interviewer has five interviews, he mails them to the Gallup headquarters in Princeton, New Jersey. The data is processed and the results, based on a sample of 1500 persons, are released to the news media. From start to finish a poll takes roughly eight days--with the exception of the final one, published the day before elections, which is processed more hurriedly...
...Eight days after the disastrous Harvard-Yale game, Brian Dowling won a minor victory in Boston as the Gridiron Club named him winner of the annual George "Bulger" Lowe award as New England's outstanding college football player. Dowling will come back to Boston on Dec. 10 to receive the award at a banquet...
...terms of settlement named a state-appointed trustee, Associate Education Commissioner Herbert F. Johnson, for the experimental Ocean Hill-Brownsville decentralized district, which was the focus of the dispute; he will remain in charge of the area's eight schools until tensions have relaxed. Three principals named by the Ocean Hill-Brownsville local board were suspended from their jobs pending a court decision on the legality of their appointments. A three-man committee was designated to hear teachers' complaints. U.F.T. Leader Albert Shanker won reinstatement for 79 of his teachers who had been transferred out of the district...
...schools reopened the day after teachers voted to approve the settlement, but the fragile nature of the truce was illustrated when eight union teachers were prevented from entering an Ocean Hill-Brownsville school. Shanker threatened to call the teachers out on a fourth strike if they were not admitted quickly. Swift action by Trustee Johnson averted more trouble, and the schools went back into full session...
California was not the only state to uphold the death penalty last week, turning down an appeal from Richard Speck, who was convicted last year of stabbing and strangling eight nurses to death in a Chicago dormitory, the Illinois Supreme Court denied that Speck's death sentence is cruel and unusual punishment. It also rebuffed his attorneys' efforts to prove that Speck was not sane at the time of the murders and that opponents of the death penalty had been rejected as jurors when the jury was picked for his trial...