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...prestige abroad. Recalling that the Tories once thundered against the pre-1957 Liberal regime for putting too many of Canada's trading eggs in one basket, Pearson snapped: "The only new baskets of any significance which have been developed are Red China and Cuba." At the Gallup poll's last precampaign sounding, the Liberals (who ruled Canada for 22 years from 1935 to 1957) narrowly lead the Tories by 41% to 38% among voters who have made up their minds. A more important figure is the 31% undecided. In such a circumstance, two minority parties, the farm-labor...
...nation's postwar religious revival may be in sight, says the Gallup poll. Five years ago, according to Gallup's figures, 69% of the nation's adults thought that religion was increasing its influence; now only 45% think so. During the same period, the proportion of those who believe that church influence is declining has risen from 14% to 31%. Gallup also reports a drop-off in church attendance after 15 years of a steady rise. In 1958 his pollsters found that 49% of U.S. adults attended services on a typical Sunday; last year's figure...
...only trailed New York's Nelson Rockefeller 44% to 45% as a Republican presidential candidate in last week's Gallup poll. Last October Rocky...
...traces of barium ash on some of the fragments. Since the only barium that could have burned was in flares carried in the baggage compartment, the bureau at once ordered all DC-6s to remove their flares. Eighteen days later, another DC-6 had a baggage-compartment fire, near Gallup, N. Mex., but with no explosive flares to feed it the crew got it under control and the airplane landed safely...
...keep up with the times. Christ mentioned "the prince of demons,'' and all the great Christian theologians have considered Satan the personification of evil. But now, even some devout Christians think of the Devil as a figure of superstition, or a comic literary fancy. In a 1957 Gallup poll of Britons 20 years old or more, 78% said that they believed in God, while only 34% believed in Satan...