Word: polled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unexpired term of a Governor who died in office), Collins later headed the Federal Community Relations Service, which was set up by the 1964 Civil Rights Act to provide inter-racial conciliation; he is now U.S. Under Secretary of Commerce. According to the St. Petersburg Times's statewide poll of urban residents, LeRoy Collins today would get 59% of the vote v. 21% for Slick Burns, with 20% undecided. Collins was clearly interested. Having sniffed the political air since election day, he non-announced last week: "If I run for this job, I'm going to run because...
...well-timed political gesture. Predictably, it sent a glow across both the country and the Continent. Behind the maneuver lay an uncomfortable fact: with the Dec. 5 voting just around the corner, De Gaulle's once commanding lead in France-Soir's respected Public Opinion Institute poll had shrunk by 4% (from 61% to 57%). Other polls showed that France's 29% "undecided" vote was breaking in favor of every candidate but the general...
...college-wide poll to determine the fate of the Harvard Undergraduate Council and the Harvard Policy Committee will be held on December...
Citing an Asahi Shimbun poll that claimed 42% of all Japanese believe that the loss of South Viet Nam to Communism would have no effect on Japan, Reischauer took editors and public alike to task for "serious misapprehensions." In his new "high posture," Reischauer specifically attacked Foreign Editor Minoru Omori of Mainichi Shimbun (circ. 6,400,000), who, after watching a North Vietnamese propaganda film, declared that the U.S. had bombed a leprosarium near Hanoi "for ten days straight." First response to the Reischauer speech was indignation, but eventually Reischauer's reputation paid off. Much greater attention...
...Marcilhacy condemned Gaullist foreign policy, argued that "a great country like France can not allow itself to be alone in the world." Marcel Barbu, an unknown watchmaker from Nanterre, pleaded for better housing. He put up the $2,000 deposit to become a candidate (refundable only if he can poll 5% of the vote) only to air his pet grievance. "It's cheap at twice the price," he explains, noting that he will get $500,000 worth of free radio and television time...