Word: poll
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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House Masters will meet this morning with Dean Watson to consider results of last week's poll on whether members of the Class of 1959 prefer to live outside the University's seven-House dormitory system...
...poll was taken in order to determine how many juniors want to live outside the Houses, and what their reasons are. By allowing some students to live in private lodgings, it is hoped that the number of freshman "forced commuters" can be decreased next year, and that commuters in the Class of 1961 can be reduced...
Macmillan had spoken in conscious awareness of strong political pressure. There has been mounting nervousness in Britain over the fact that U.S. planes carrying hydrogen bombs fly out of British bases. Such nervousness has prompted widespread demands for new East-West talks. In London, reported the Gallup poll last week, 51% of the population favor an Eisenhower-Khrushchev meeting, only 24% are opposed...
Proving, as usual, that quality does not necessarily jingle cash registers, Motion Picture Herald posted the results of its poll of some 10,000 U.S. and Canadian theater owners. Their selection of the top ten box-office pullers featured male dreamboats of all ages, indicated that teen-agers are calling the moviegoing public's tune, with nary a cinemactress in the top ten for the first time since the Herald started its balloting 26 years ago. Scratched in the past year: Marilyn Monroe and Kim Novak. The new all-male marquee names hailed as dollar signs by exhibitors...
Brower also pointed out that there were many points which the poll did not cover. In particular, he cited the absence of a parent's consent clause in the questionnaire and suggested that there might be considerable discrepancy between a student's "whim" and the moderating influence which a parent might exert in the matter...