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...movement toward socially involved films. It was also one of the best. It is a story of a veteran forced into prison by his circumstances and the abuse he suffers at the hands of society. The film is a little dated, but remains compelling. Paul Muni stars in this Mervin LeRoy effort...
...good job in presenting both sides of controversial questions, 48% rated dailies as "poor" or "only fair." A TIME/Yankelovich survey taken in May, just after Nixon released his tape transcripts, found that the public considers the press less fair to the President than Congress and the courts have been. Mervin Field's California Poll took a sampling the week before and found that the number of people who think Watergate coverage excessive has grown in seven months from 47% to 51%, while the number of those who consider the coverage unbiased has decreased from...
...Watergate and is inflating the story out of all proportion. Most journalists have tended to dismiss these critics as highly partisan, but a recent opinion survey indicates that dissatisfaction among readers and viewers is far more widespread. The California Poll, a statewide survey founded in 1946 by Pollster Mervin D. Field and considered by many researchers to be representative of attitudes nationwide, shows that about half the public think that print and TV journalists pay too much attention to Watergate, and that a growing minority of Americans consider the coverage to be biased...
...surveys find that not more than 20% of the public go along with the proposition "We have been through bad times before, and things will once more return to the way they used to be." California Pollster Mervin Field assesses the public mood as one of "muted outrage, semi-shock-if not full shock -numbness, perplexity." Typically, a bewildered airline executive in Manhattan complains: "My salary has doubled in the past five years. I can't ask the company for more, they've been good to me already. But I can't keep up with expenses...
...widespread ticket splitting seemed to confirm the fading influence of bloc voting and party loyalty. "Never before has partisanship meant so little," noted California Pollster Mervin Field. "I just don't see a coalescing back to the traditional loyalties." Larry O'Brien, former Democratic National Chairman, saw a more ominous sign in the balloting. Citing the alarmingly low national voter turnout,* he observed: "Half the population is turned off on both parties and on the system itself...