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...President has plenty of cause for confidence. He has been acclaimed for his handling of Cuba, and his midterm popularity is remarkably high. A recent Gallup poll reported that 74% of the voters approve of the way he is handling his job. There is also an inner feeling best described by a professorial White House aide: "Kennedy now has a sense that his own Government can work, that he can mobilize his own resources, that he can judge people correctly. There is a conviction of correctness...
...camera, things were not going so well as Harold Macmillan made it seem. Britain's hopes of membership in the Common Market hung precariously in the balance. After the decisions at Nassau, a question mark rose over the future of its military power. The latest Gallup poll showed Labor leading the Tories 45% to 36%. Many of Macmillan's own Conservative party backbenchers were critical of the government for its inability to stop the growing unemployment in Britain's north...
...Elections: Kennedy recently read a Gallup poll saying that the Cuba crisis changed few votes in the recent elections. The President, for one, does not agree; he thinks it saved a lot of votes for the Democrats...
Even as Phil Graham was putting together his new syndicate, Marshall Field organized an even bigger one. Last fall he bought out Chicago's Publishers Syndicate, a kit bag of comic strips, features, medical advice, the Gallup poll and assorted odds and ends, with an extensive clientele of 1,786 daily and weekly newspapers. Combined with Field's own Sun-Times-Daily News syndicate, which peddles to 73 papers such wares as Ann Landers. Cartoonist Bill Mauldin, Steve Canyon, and the dispatches of the News's foreign correspondents, the new syndicate made Graham's Post-Times...
Last week Gallup surveyed Republican presidential possibilities for 1964, found that Nelson Rockefeller, who easily won re-election as Governor of New York, had taken over the lead from Richard Nixon, who was defeated for Governor of California. The G.O.P. list, just before November elections...