Word: leaked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Time was when a politician, in forecasting victory, had to put his own opinion on the line-"We'll win by 2½ to 1." But no longer: now all he has to do is hire a pollster, leak the results to the press (if they are favorable, which they had better be), and claim that political science itself is on his side...
...nowadays wait to make decisions until they hear from Lou Harris. At 41, Harris is the U.S.'s hottest conductor of "private" political polls - canvasses paid for by the candidate (or might-be candidate) that are kept confidential unless the candidate thinks it is to his advantage to leak some or all of the findings. During the past six years, Harris has carried out private polls for 35 U.S. Senators and 17 state Governors, plus scores of other office holders and office seekers. He was John F. Kennedy's pollster in 1960, and Ken nedy based many...
...plots. Nevertheless, the profligate is not without honor in Britain; Only Two Can Play is currently breaking box-office records there. Its success is understandable. Based on a bestselling novel (That Uncertain Feeling) by Kingsley Amis, the script releases plenty of low-pressure fizz and an occasional slow leak of wit ("I was plowing through your novel the other day," the hero murmurs sweetly to an author he detests. "We have an unsigned first edition-they're the rare ones, aren't they?"). But what matters most is Comedian Sellers. He is perfectly hilarious as the lubricious bookworm...
...shopping trail wasn't too hard to follow since a leak from the White House last week mentioned the Park Avenue shop, Chez Ninon, and California Designer Gus Tassell as supplying the clothes, along with the official Cassini...
Bidwell partisans suggested that the leak was part of a concerted Administration drive to discredit Wall Street, and Bidwell himself in a bitter statement implied that the Government had deliberately waited until he became chairman of the Exchange to prosecute...