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...increased rapidly in the past few years. In a survey of 10,000 students at 50 colleges. Dr. Peter H. Rossi of Johns Hopkins University found that 31% had tried marijuana at least once, and 14% were using it "every week or two." By contrast, a 1969 Gallup poll showed that 9% of college-trained people had experimented with the drug...
...time is ripe: a Gallup poll reports that 75 per cent of the American people now support the McGovern-Hatfield proposal to set a deadline for total U. S. withdrawal from Southeast Asia, NBC reports that 45 per cent of those polled believe that U. S. ground troops are in Laos despite repeated government disclaimers...
Nixon's glowing predictions also constitute a kind of jawboning of the U.S. consumer, urging him to cheer up and spend confidently. The consumer could use some cheer. Seventy-four percent of those questioned in a Gallup poll in early January, for example, said that they expected unemployment to rise this year. The economic news so far has not been the sort needed to produce instant exuberance. Last week the Government reported that consumer prices in December rose at an annual rate of 6%, continuing the average rate that made 1970 the most inflationary year since...
...defensive, like ballplayers who can only tell the fans to wait until next year." Nixon is still getting low ratings in the polls on the performance of his job, though Americans paid their President a customary tribute by voting him the man they most admired in an annual Gallup sounding-by a considerably smaller margin than the year before...
...Senator Edmund Muskie's powerful mid-term election-eve television speech, Pollster Louis Harris set up a mythical presidential race between Muskie, President Nixon and George Wallace. The startling result was a Muskie victory, with 46% of the vote, compared with 40% for the President. Last week George Gallup announced the results of an almost identical sampling taken a month later. In this trial, Nixon squeaked by the Democratic front runner, 44% to 43%. Whether the difference is due to increased presidential popularity or to the vagaries of polltaking two years before the event is difficult to know...