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There have also been instances of politicians commissioning private polls of limited samples and leaking the results to the press as if it were a national poll. By adjusting the sample it is, of course, possible to obtain any desired results. In recent campaigns, major candidates have frequently commissioned polls on certain issues, using the data to mold a popular campaign image of themselves. This sort of molding is, obviously, what politicians have always done; but it may not be in the interest of better leadership that they have an instrument as fine as the polls to help them...
...England and that the U.S. owed him huge sums of money.) Careful typing might permit psychiatrists to help-or security men to keep checking on-potential assassins. New laws requiring waiting periods before guns could be purchased, the experts said, might make it harder for such men to obtain weapons...
...report corroborates the complaints of the protesting mothers. Its central point is that the state's welfare money is not reaching the people for whom it was intended. The mothers who are on trial today for sitting-in in a desperate attempt to obtain money for winter clothing for their children represent the victims of the welfare system. The Cohen report has now filled in the other side of the picture: now we know where the money has been going...
Admittedly, Harvard will not soon part with its real power. It follows that students on a Faculty committee would, for the foreseeable future, be seated at the Faculty's largesse. But if the radicals' real goal is to obtain substantive power at Harvard, they must first give the middle-aged men who make up critical committees a chance to get used to having students around. Students must show them that they won't have Cliffies sharing their suites in Quincy House and that they won't burn Widener. Only then will students get a substantive role in the decision-making...
Harvard Stadium will be filled to capacity for The Game next Saturday, but alumni from the classes 1950 to the present won't be in the stands--unless they can obtain tickets from enterprising student scalpers...