Word: pers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Vice-President Nixon received 55 per cent of the first place votes in a "Presidential side-walk poll" conducted by students in New Hampshire Saturday...
Among the 173 Republicans, who represented a 43 per cent majority of the votes polled, 79 per cent favored Nixon to 12 per cent for Rockefeller. Of the 29 per cent who classified themselves Democrats, 65 per cent chose Senator John Kennedy, with 20 per cent for Nixon. Nixon also received 47 per cent of the first place choices among the 112 Independents polled...
...campaign, ninth in a current series, netted close to $50,000 more than the best previous attempt and gathered funds from 45 per cent of the alumni. Non-alumni contributions amounted to nearly $60,000 and raised the average gift in the campaign from...
Anderson got strong backing from Per Jacobsson, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, who charged that dollar restrictions are now being used as "protectionist devices" to keep down foreign competition. To Anderson's great satisfaction, Jacobsson virtually signed the death warrant for dollar discrimination by promising that the fund would act on a tougher policy "in the very near future," thus launching a major new step for a freer world trade...
...Chevrolet's Corvair; a four-door Falcon will list for $1,803 v. $1,860 for a Corvair. For its imported line Ford showed a restyled, British-built Anglia with a four-cylinder engine that has a top speed of 70 m.p.h., gets up to 35 miles per gallon. Ford says that it has 55,000 orders for the Anglia...