Word: polled
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Americans for Reappraisal of Far Eastern Policy (ARFEP) will conduct a poll today and tomorrow to determine student opinion on United States Far Eastern policy. The poll will be part of the Forum on U.S. Far Eastern policy to be held on United Nations Day, Oct 24, at Sanders Theater...
Beating the Poll Tax. Republican Holton's optimism has nonetheless been buoyed by signs of unprecedented G.O.P. activity around the state. Many Virginia precincts and districts have their first Republican organizations in history, and the party has produced a bumper crop of legislative candidates: 14 for the 40-member state senate, 51 for the 100-man house. During a 24-hour statewide tour last week, Holton and Nixon drew bigger crowds in many towns than any other Republicans have mustered in Virginians' memory...
...state is 45th in per-capita expenditures for mental health and spends a smaller percentage of per-capita income for higher education than any other Southern state. Holton's most impassioned attacks are reserved for Godwin's anti-integration record and his support for the $1.50 poll tax, which Virginia voters must pay three years in advance of each state election. "I'm going to hang the poll tax around Godwin's neck," promises Holton, "and beat it like a brass cymbal all over Virginia...
...Virginia's Fairfax and Arlington Counties. Many are mobile, highly professional newcomers who have liberal views but consider themselves politically independent; though employed by a Democratic Administration, they may well prefer a moderate Republican to a Byrd-backed Democrat. Whichever way they go, Holton seems certain to poll a record vote for a Republican gubernatorial candidate-but probably not enough to beat Godwin...
...Some governments have asked their former colonial masters to write their anthems for them; one Frenchman composed the tunes for two West African states. Seven African anthems have been produced by local priests. Seven nations held anthem contests, with the winners being judged either by governmental decision or popular poll. Two English ladies won the Nigerian contest; and in Malawi, where the winner was a native organist, the government was so delighted with his effort ("Put down each and every enemy/ Hunger, disease, envy") that it sent him to London to study music...