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...this a permanent phenomenon? is it widespread? Like many of his contemporaries, Gerzon has a child-like faith in the growing progressiveness of youth. His book ignores the statements and beliefs of a majority of college students. One indication is student opinion on the war. Only in the East, Gallup polls report, has even a majority of students objected to the current Nixon strategy in Vietnam...
...recent Gallup poll on men most admired by Americans showed Agnew an unprecedented No. 3, after Nixon and Billy Graham. He is still the butt of jokes at chic Washington cocktail parties, but over at the White House, the sly little Agnew jokes so popular among staffers six months ago are no longer heard. The Veep's picture, rarely in evidence at first, now shares the walls of the basement corridor with Nixon...
...average American uses 26 million gallons of water, 21,000 gallons of gasoline, 10,000 lbs. of meat, 28,000 lbs. of milk and cream, as well as $8,000 worth of school buildings, $6,000 of clothing and $7,000 of furniture. To compound the problem, a Gallup poll shows that 41% of Americans consider the ideal family size to be four or more children...
According to a recent Gallup poll 45% of Americans think that newspapers report unfairly on political and social issues, and 42% think that the TV networks are unfair in the same areas. Many Americans also think the press and TV place too much stress on unpleasant news. Thus the timing was perfect for last week's release of the most comprehensive review of the nation's news media since the report of the Hutchins Commission on Freedom of the Press...
...Third Presidents and religious leaders routinely do well in George Gallup's annual search for the ten men whom Americans admire most, so it was hardly news when Richard Nixon and Billy Graham placed first and second in the latest round. That Spiro Agnew ran a close third behind Graham was something else; Vice Presidents frequently flunk the ten test entirely, and none has ever reached so high an eminence in the poll's previous 21 heats. Hearing the news while in Asia, the Vice President reacted modestly: "Well, it surprised me, but I've never been...