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...elections for Congress were being held today, which party would you like to see win in this state . . .?" To this question, Pollster George Gallup this week announced surprising nationwide results...
...finding, said Gallup, indicated a probable mid-term increase for the party in power without precedent since the Democrats gained ten seats in the 1934 congressional elections...
...deaf, often crotchety and frequently high-handed old man ought to make way for someone younger. There was almost none of such talk last week. The rivalry between Butler and Foreign Secretary Eden for the succession has also served to strengthen Churchill's position in the party. (A Gallup poll last week showed Eden still the favorite over Butler, 64% to 8%, even though Eden's prestige has fallen...
Across the U.S. last week, more people than ever were bulging with excess fat-and ready to admit it. Forty-five percent of the women said so in a Gallup poll, 25% of the men. (Not that men are really slimmer, say doctors; they are just slower to face the fat facts.) By their own say-so, the overweight add up to a whopping 34 million-or a good many more than the 25 million figure which has sometimes been accepted as a rough estimate by life insurance companies...
Last month the Gallup poll reported that she ranked fourth in U.S. favor as the world's "most admired woman." (Front runners: Eleanor Roosevelt, Queen Elizabeth II, Mamie Eisenhower.) Like any woman in politics, Clare Luce has frequently presented the woman's viewpoint on public questions. But her main contribution to public discussion has been free of feminist special pleading. Deeply read in philosophy, she has brought a clear, practical mind and a gift for forceful expression to the central problems of world political strategy...