Word: gallup
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...Gallup Pollsters added up the figures in their annual popularity contest for women, proclaimed that Eleanor Roosevelt, in the opinion of the U.S. public, is the world's "most admired" living woman-a distinction she has won nine years out of the past ten.* The runners-up, in the order of their public appeal: U.S. Ambassador to Italy Clare Boothe Luce, Mamie Eisenhower, Helen Keller, Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, Madame Chiang Kaishek, Britain's Princess Margaret (a newcomer to the top ten), India's Madame Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, Maine's Republican Senator Margaret Chase...
...Council of Scientific Investigation, an agency of Franco's office, took an anonymous poll of some 400 Madrid University students, carefully selected from various faculties and home backgrounds to give a Gallup-type cross section of opinion. The students were asked what they thought of 1) the ruling minority, 2) the military leaders, 3) the university professors, 4) the church hierarchy...
...Among the other charter members: Director Leo Perils of the C.I.O. Community Services Committee; Mrs. Barry Bingham, vice president of the Louisville Courier-Journal and Times; Economist Beardsley Ruml; President John Cowles of the Minneapolis Star and Tribune; Pollster George Gallup; Mrs. Bruce Gould, co-editor of the Ladies' Home Journal; Executive Director Lester Granger of the National Urban League; Pundit Walter Lippmann; Mrs. Eugene Meyer of the Washington Post...
Eden's new team is yet untried, its record still to be written. But last week the Tories got a clear warning. The latest public-opinion polls, by the Daily Express and by George Gallup for the News Chronicle, both show that Labor now leads the Tories in popular favor for the first time since the election...
...slipping? Two recent by-election defeats (TIME, Nov. 7) showed up Liberal weak spots in New Brunswick and Ontario. Last week there was evidence that the weakness may be spreading elsewhere in the party that has governed Canada continuously since 1935. For the third time in five months, the Gallup poll indicated a decline in the Liberals' share of the popular vote. The Liberal proportion now stands at 46%, lowest since the 1953 general election. Said the Gallup poll report: "The shift is consistent enough to constitute a trend...