Word: poll
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Radcliffe Student Government Association last night distributed a poll to all undergraduates concerning the use of the Field House. The questionnaire is primarily designed to discover whether or not a majoriy of students favor turning the building into a coffee house...
Results of the poll will be announced early next week by Betty A. Rabb '62, Electoral Chairman. SGA members will use the tally of student opinion in preparing a resolution, which they plan to submit to the Radcliffe Administration. The statement probably will recommend one of three alternatives suggested in the poll: using the Field House as a coffee house, keeping it as a study place with improvements in physical facilities and lighting, or leaving the building in its present condition...
...William Langer, 73, fiery oddball Republican Senator from North Dakota (since 1940); in Washington. A harddriving, hell-raising nonconformist who chewed unlighted cigars in their cellophane wrappers, baffled poll takers and battled all the harder when downed by defeat. "Wild Bill'' Langer was a hired farm hand at 15, a lawyer at 20, a Columbia University liberal arts graduate at 24, a county prosecutor at 28. Defeated for Governor in 1920 and for attorney general in 1928, he ran again in 1932, won the governorship, then got nabbed for conspiracy (forcing federal workers to contribute to his campaign...
Extending Friday night hours, the report continues, "is realistic in the sense that it does fulfill the needs of normal dating" as evidenced by the poll taken last spring...
...movement has the support of 16 chapters and hopes to incorporate ten more by the end of this month. The Harvard chapter originated last spring after a College-wide poll showed Rockefeller to be preferred over Nixon. Chapman decided to expand the movement to national proportions after talking to George Wahr Sallade, national chairman of Citizens for Rockefeller...