Word: poll
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Knowland has a long way to go, reported the Gallup poll this week. Asked whether they would "personally prefer" Dick Nixon or Bill Knowland as the G.O.P. presidential nominee in 1960, Republican voters replied: Nixon 63%, Knowland 23%, don't know 14%. But even more indicative: of Republican voters polled, only 2% said they did not know Nixon, 28% said they did not know Knowland...
Great Britain has a high standard of living, full employment, political freedom, womb-to-tomb medical care, and as much peace as most nations in the world. Why should a Briton want to leave home? Yet when the Gallup poll (published last week) asked, "If you were free to do so, would you like to go and settle in another country?", 41% of the Britons polled answered yes, and another 12% said they were not sure...
FOREIGN RELATIONS People's Mood On the general subject of foreign aid the mood of the American people is far more free-spending than the mood of the U.S. Congress. Just before President Eisenhower proposed his Middle Eastern resolution, the Gallup poll asked coast-to-coast whether the U.S. should or should not keep on spending its recent average of $4 billion a year on foreign aid. Result: in favor, 58%; against, 28%; no opinion, 14%. Pro-foreign aid sentiment, Gallup reported, cut cleanly across party lines-59% of Republicans, 59% of Democrats, 58% of independents...
...best" actors of 1956 were not mentioned in the Motion Picture Herald's poll to determine the year's biggest box-office draws. Herald's top-ten ratings, including only two actresses and reflecting the opinions of some 16,000 theater owners in the U.S. and Canada: 1) William Holden, 2) John Wayne, 3) James Stewart, 4) Burt Lancaster, 5) Glenn Ford, 6) Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, 7) Gary Cooper, 8) Marilyn Monroe, 9) Kim Novak, 10) Frank Sinatra...
...poll of residents conducted yesterday by Connie Glaser '59 shows a majority willing to contribute to the purchase of a set. Emily B. Lacey, dean of residence, has assured Moors Hall president Lee Ginsburg '57 that the Administration will not oppose the innovation if it receives approval at a full dormitory meeting after the vacation...