Word: polled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard Undergraduate Council (HUC) is making plans to poll the entire student body on opinions about the draft and, specifically, about the use of rank-in-class to determine a student's eligibility for deferment...
...proposal was indefinitely shelved because, in part, of its unpopularity with Harvard students. A poll by the Harvard Undergraduate Council reported that 62 per cent of the respondents opposed the idea...
Such is Lyndon Johnson's thirst for acclaim that he has had electronic devices installed in the presidential limousines so that he can drink in the applause of the populace as he drives by. He may soon need an amplifier. The Louis Harris poll reported last week that only 50% of the American public now endorses the President v. 83% in February 1964; the Gallup poll shows an 8% decline, from 56% to 48%, in two months...
...vote margin over his closest rival. His showing was all the more remarkable because in the county courthouses, which still pay fealty to Ol' Gene's son Herman, he is unfondly remembered as the "boy wonder" Governor who hobbled the Talmadge machine, abolished the state's poll tax, and established a merit system for state employees...
...Fritjof Rolvaag is balding, jowly and dumpy, looks at least a decade older than his 53 years, and in public wears the bemused air of a Norwegian farmer lost in the big city. In his first term as Governor of Minne sota, Rolvaag seemed so ineffectual that an opinion poll last February gave him the unqualified approval of only 9% of the voters. In June he was summarily rejected even by his own Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, which chose Lieut. Governor A. M. ("Sandy") Keith, 37, as its gubernatorial candidate. Last week, nonetheless, Rolvaag won the D.F.L. nomination for another...