Word: mervin
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Candidate Ford can dangle prospects of a vice-presidential nomination to induce various Republicans to back him. Mused California Pollster Mervin Field: "Ford has a wide-open dance card because he's not coming to the prom with a girl of his own." Among the contenders are three members of the Administration's new "team": Rumsfeld, Bush and Elliot Richardson (see page 30), who was named to succeed Rogers Morton as Secretary of Commerce. Morton is expected to take over leadership of the President's campaign from Director Howard ("Bo") Callaway, who has been blamed by many Republicans...
Officials at Gallup and other orga nizations are growing worried that many Americans are simply refusing to answer survey takers' questions when the bell rings. Says California Pollster Mervin Field: "Twenty years ago we could count on getting 85% [of a selected sample] with reasonable effort. Now we're hard-pressed...
...reading a local newspaper. Besides, in a real emergency, the agents guarding Ford talk back and forth on a special channel that they feel sure is secure against eavesdroppers. ler. In the latest California poll, taken in August among Republicans, Ford leads Reagan, 54% to 45%, but Pollster Mervin Field regards Ford's lead as uncomfortably thin...
...Advocates of euthanasia insist that a terminally ill person should be allowed to choose between prolonging his life and ending it. Pollster Mervin Field reports that a good many Californians, at least, appear to agree. In a recent Field poll of 504 Californians carefully selected to provide a good cross section of the state's population, 87% agreed that incurably ill patients should have the right to refuse medication that might prolong their lives. A significant number of those polled were willing to go even further. When asked if incurably ill patients should have the right...
Making Enemies. Pollster Mervin Field recently found that 86% of Californians expect that Brown will do either a good or at least a fair job in office. Brown is attempting to forge a new constituency that will cut across traditional liberal-conservative lines and gather support from both ends of the political spectrum. He aims to attract people who are discontented with the established institutions of business, labor and government, and who are moved by his calls for a return to individual initiative...