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Checking up on public response to the idea of the four-day work week, which may be labor's next great clarion call, Gallup pollsters last week found that relatively few Americans want more leisure. Of those questioned, 61% rejected the four-day week (31% say yes, 8% had no opinion). Biggest single occupational group to turn thumbs down on the idea: farmers (76%); manual workers mustered the strongest approval (39%). Fifty-four percent of the nation's men opposed the four-day week. By contrast, 67% of the women voted against it-presumably to keep husbands from...
Newspapers and politicians admired the try, but almost to a man they gave Diefenbaker no chance. The Gallup poll forecast a Liberal walkaway. Instead, the Tories raised their hold on the House of Commons from 50 seats to 111 (including one member gained in a recent by-election). The Liberals were cut down from 167 to 105 members. Independents, plus the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (socialist) and the rightist Social Credit Party picked up 48, thus denying the Tories a majority...
...radio shows placed a news show, NBC's News of the World (with Morgan Beatty) in the No. i spot, and four others (Lowell Thomas, NBC 8 O'Clock News, Richard Harkness, NBC 7 O'Clock News) in the top ten. In San Francisco Pollster George Gallup warned the annual convention of the American Society of Newspaper Editors that radio is a serious news rival; 39 million U.S. homes get a daily newspaper and 41 million homes have TV. but "radio has long since surpassed both figures." Further, when asked how they would prefer to get news...
Directive No. 16. On June 22, 1940, the French signed their armistice with Hitler, and even in the friendly U.S. at that time, one-third of George Gallup's opinion staters thought the British were licked. For some Nazis, it was a simple matter of crossing the Channel in the wake of the Dunkirk evacuees. The British, who knew the trick was one too many even for Napoleon, were slow to convince. Hitler thought the British would give up, and so it was not until July 16 that he issued Directive No. 16: "As England, in spite...
Outside Quebec, the Liberals' solid South, the Prime Minister's party has slumped badly since the last election, in the latest Gallup poll held a lead of only 2.6% over the Tories. Yet by sweeping Quebec's bloc of 75 Commons seats, the Liberals can ride out the Tory gains elsewhere. Last week the 75-year-old Prime Minister moved spryly through the Quebec countryside, battening down the Liberals' holdings with talks in flawless French. "I will tell you a secret, which really isn't a secret, concerning the method which has helped...