Word: poll
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Proclaiming that U.S. males should stop "staring at women's bodies and start looking at their faces again," the Caricaturists Society of America announced the results of a poll of its own members to determine "the perfect female face." Resulting composite: the "violet, limpid" eyes of Elizabeth Taylor; the forehead, "white, smooth and pure," of Kim Novak; the "cute, slightly turned-up" nose of Songstress Teresa Brewer; the "ripe, sultry and suggestive" mouth of Anita Ekberg; the "silky and soft" hair of Sophia Loren; the "firm, yet round and petite" chin of Natalie Wood; the "slender, yet strong" neck...
Ominously, the News Chronicle's latest Gallup poll showed that if a general election were held now, 40% of those asked would vote Labor, only 31% Conservative. Never in recent years had Labor held such a lead. But the poll also logged a record number of "Don't Know" votes (21½%)-and strangely enough, most of these were reported by pro-Labor voters. If Britons were dissatisfied with the go-day-old Conservative Macmillan government, they were also dubious about Laborite Hugh Gaitskell's Opposition...
Worried by the discovery that only 9% of the refugees who fled from Communist East Germany (over 18,000 last month) had to leave for political reasons, the West German Ministry for All-German Affairs made a detailed poll of refugee political convictions. Of the workers polled (all of whom had been employed in Communist state-run industries), 22% were still outspoken in support of Communist policy; 25% criticized some aspects of the Communist Party line and defended others; 17% were in favor of state ownership of all means of production; 25% supported "moderate" nationalization. And only 8% were...
...biggest passel of straight-shooting, clean-living Westerners ever to jingle on screen will ride into TV. In its insatiable search for material, television is transforming the traditional horse opera into the "adult western." The results, which pushed one western last week to No. 3 in the Trendex popularity poll, have encouraged the networks into preparing a whole herd of new westerns for next fall in the biggest visible trend for the coming TV season. See TV-RADIO, High in the Saddle...
According to Gallup's analysis, the wishful emigrants spread across all levels of politics, income and education. A recent poll of Cambridge undergraduates in their last two years showed that among men students 11.3% had definitely decided to go, and another 27.6% were seriously considering leaving. Among women students, 34.1% had made up their minds to leave. Most favored goals: Canada 39%, Africa 10.5%, the U.S, and Australia about 8% each. Said one student: "I want to go to a country where new ideas are needed, so that I can give something to that country rather than just live...