Word: polled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last January WHRB announcer Pete Salerno '68 won Playboy magazine's nationwide jazz prediction poll, a dis-jockey contest to guess what the readers would choose the most popular jazz numbers of the year, Salerno scored first participate the readers' taste, but, he says; "it was a calculated win. I had substitute my own taste." As a part of the contest, he was supposed to popularize the records he chose, but "there were a couple I couldn't even put on the air...our listeners would have called up to complain...
Some 500 freshmen responded to a poll conducted Friday by the Harvard Undergraduate Council to determine the strengths and weakness of the freshman proctor system, Greg B. Craig '67, president of the HUC said last night...
...report containing the exact results of the poll and an HUC proposal -- based on information obtained in previous studies -- to let some seniors act as advisors to freshmen will be circulated among Administrative members later this week...
...considers Lyndon Baines Johnson his finest friend, he has leveled bitter criticism at the Johnson Administration of late. Connally's blasts began last month when the Justice Department ordered FBI agents to monitor a special 15-day voter registration period that followed the abolition of Texas' poll tax. Last week the state won a court fight against a U.S. attempt to extend registration as late as October, and Connally accused the Administration of "either frivolous harassment or an attempt to take over the authority of the state government...
...elections is the impact of the South's new Negro voters, 325,000 of whom have been registered in the five states principally affected by the civil rights movement. The 1965 Voting Rights Act, followed this year by the U.S. Supreme Court's abolition of state poll taxes, has already wrought subtle changes in the style and structure of Southern politics. The transformation is bound to quicken as more and more Negroes are enfranchised...