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...Socialism." Also in California, Don Muchmore's State Poll calculated that Rocky leads L.B.J. 50% to 38%, Romney leads the President 45% to 42%, and Senator Charles Percy, now likely to be Illinois' favorite son, ties L.B.J. at 42%. However, Mervin Field's California Poll reported that the voters there preferred only one Republican to Lyndon Johnson, and that is Nelson Rockefeller. Field's figures had Rocky beating L.B.J...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Republicans: Rocky's Rise | 9/29/1967 | See Source »

...rounding up workers and seeking to widen the former Vice President's early lead. Moreover, there is talk that California's Governor Ronald Reagan, getting less and less bashful on the subject of the presidency, might go into New Hampshire. In his own state, according to Mervin Field's California Poll, Reagan still trails Nixon and Romney, in that order, among preferred G.O.P. presidential candidates. But after interviewing 1,021 California Republicans, Field concluded last week that Reagan's strength has doubled to 15% in the past two months. A move by Reagan into New Hampshire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Republicans: Lukewarm at the Lake | 7/14/1967 | See Source »

Death & Burial. Around the U.S., there exists what California Pollster Mervin Field describes as "a general uneasiness"-over Viet Nam, high prices, an ever-rising crime rate, the seeming ineradicability of poverty, the restlessness of the younger generation, the increasing use of a whole pharmacopoeia of drugs, from pot to peyote. A Gallup sampling showed that 58% of Americans consider income taxes too high-and the figure will surely swell if Johnson decides to slap a 6% surcharge on income tax rates. If he does not, the Administration may well end the current fiscal year with a deficit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Politics: The Temper of the Times | 4/14/1967 | See Source »

...Mervin Field's California poll had Republican Ronald Reagan's support holding steady at 46% , while Democratic Incumbent Pat Brown dropped four points, to 39% . By dividing the undecided 15%, Field gave Reagan 54% to Brown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Political Notes: What the Polls Say | 10/21/1966 | See Source »

...their scholarship," notes that math and science finally "begin to make sense to them." Roger Derthick, principal of Henry Grady High, calls it "a great motivating course." The FAA is so enthusiastic that it is permitting one of its field men to help Atlanta teachers qualify as flying instructors. Mervin Strickler Jr., director of the FAA education program, contends that "this type of course changes the attitude of youngsters toward excellence, precision and high standards-no kid is satisfied with 70% success when landing an airplane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Public Schools: Making Math & Science Soar | 1/14/1966 | See Source »

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