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Lyndon Johnson has a thing about polls. Favorable ones he likes to pack in a pocket like a pistol, and usually he has one of the fastest draws in Washington. But last week's Harris and Gallup samplings were more like lead than lightning. The Johnson popularity was down to 55%, plenty for a landslide in any presidential election but a new low for him. Support for his conduct of the Viet Nam war dipped below 50% for the first time. A clear majority of 54% said they favored a U.S. pull-out from Viet Nam if the confrontation...
...public is "far ahead of present-day educators" in willingness to accept innovation in schools, says Pollster George Gallup in a new survey of parental opinion. If parents had their way, all classrooms would already be using teaching machines and programmed textbooks for "fact" learning, team teachers would be focusing on the great, neglected field of training kids in how to think and analyze, children would progress by ability groups rather than grades, advanced students would spend nearly half of their time studying alone. And school administrators would be hotly devising even newer methods of instruction...
...visceral instinct that the U.S. should not withdraw. How ever, said Western Pollster Don Muchmore, "there is a complete lack of belief that we can win. People wish we'd never gotten in, but say we've got to continue to help South Viet Nam." The Gallup poll reported that between January and April the proportion of those queried who approve Johnson's Viet Nam policy decreased from 56% to 54%, while those who disapprove increased from...
...recent Gallup poll affirmed that big families are losing vogue. In 1945, just I as the baby boom was getting under way, 49% of the people polled said the ideal family should have four or more children. Today the figure is down to 35%, about where it was when the question was first asked 30 years ago. Just as important, notes Gallup, Americans no longer associate a growing population with progress; indeed, more than two-thirds look upon it as a "serious problem...
...over, a big majority of believers continue to display their faith by joining churches. In 1964, reports the National Council of Churches, denominational allegiance rose about 2%, compared with a population gain of less than 1.5%. More than 120 million Americans now claim a religious affiliation; and a recent Gallup survey indicated that 44% of them report that they attend church services weekly...