Word: polled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...considering taking a poll in Lament this week. "The poll would only make more definitive what we consider a strong negative reaction," Goldfarb said...
...just these "undecided" voters who gave George Romney his extraordinary margin. The usually accurate Detroit News poll taken just before the 1964 election gave Romney 48 per cent, Staebler 44, with the rest undecided. The final result was Romney 56, Staebler 44. Romney must have received something like 95 per cent of the undecided vote...
...trouble is restrictive registration. Most states have lengthy residence requirements before an otherwis eligible voter can cast his ballot in a national election-Mississippi being the worst, with two years. Many states also require unreasonably early registration; in Texas, it is necessary to pay a poll tax by Feb. 1, if one wants to be able to vote in November. Almost everywhere the voter is caught in a vortex of filling in forms and signing registration books. Many of these practices stem from a time when American communities were isolated; in mobile America, the system is clearly outdated. An estimated...
...Radcliffe would indeed be free, published an informative booklet on the draft, began to formalize student contacts with the Overseers Visiting Committees, consulted with the Coop to improve the textbook department, and reported on Yale's experience with a non-faculty master (John Hersey). The Council also conducted a poll of student opinion on the House assignment system, out of which emerged a detailed and intelligent proposal for reform--which the Administration inexplicably ignored...
...violence and vituperation were doubtless the work of a lunatic fringe, but it made many politicians wonder if the time would ever be ripe for a realistic abandonment of the "lost territories." A poll by the authoritative Aliens-bach Institute this year showed that only 28% of West Germans still believe that Pomerania, Silesia and East Prussia will ever be returned to Germany-compared with 66% in 1953. But 23% is still a good-sized practical fragment to deal with...