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Neither Harris nor TIME'S editors believe, of course, that polls provide an infallible guide to public opinion. We do believe that they can be a highly valuable journalistic tool to help report how people live and what they think, which is often, as Harris puts it, "less visible, less easy to define and analyze than such overt breaking news as the shooting down of a U.S. plane or a student uprising at Cornell." His association with TIME, he feels, "merges the best practices of journalism with the new field of polling. It's the most exciting thing...
...right. More Americans are willing to use nuclear weapons in defense of Canada than of any other country, but at that only 17% would risk it. Mexico is second, at 15%. If Brazil were invaded by outside Communist military force, 52% would favor some form of U.S. help-though only 7% would go so far as to launch hydrogen bombs. Only 42% would aid Italy, a staunch NATO ally. Americans would not go that far if other countries were threatened by a Communist takeover from within, even if the insurrection had outside help; in such a situation, for example, only...
...Corporation didn't just need a new member - it needed a new kind of member to help cure its image problem...
...also grossly out of place on the interlocking-directorate charts that some radical students had prepared to show how the Corporation dominates American business. Calkins' only tangible business involvement was his role as director of a Rhode Island manufacturing company. He later said he took the job to help a friend whose company was in trouble...
...other reason, which Senator McGovern only barely suggests (I suppose there are certain things that one just doesn't speak of) is that there are a number of corporations that want to see the ABM--the heavy system, of course--built. Building machine guns, bullets, even helicopters doesn't help them much. The Pentagon has a pretty good idea of what things like that should cost; there's not much room for padding the contract with research and development expenses. Besides, such weapons are actually used, so they really do have to work. If the ABM doesn't work...