Word: polled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Precarious Stability. The British public has had just about enough: a National Opinion Poll showed last week that four out of five Britons would go so far as to favor tough government legislation outlawing unauthorized strikes. Harold Wilson, for all his dependence on the workingman's vote, has had enough too. Knowing that Labor's work stoppages, coupled with wage gains running an inflationary 6.3% so far this year, threaten not only the precarious stability of sterling but also the precarious two-vote majority by which his socialists rule. Wilson demanded that the Trades Union Congress, meeting...
...last month's $450 million sale of 222 million bu. of wheat to Russia. He has installed a new and vastly expanded social security system, a new minimum-wage law and a far-reaching anti-poverty program. All this seems to be reflected in the most recent Gallup poll, which gives Pearson's Liberals a 45%-to-29% lead over the Conservatives compared with a 42%-to-33% margin during the 1963 election...
...Dodds represented a working-class Thameside constituency that returned him last fall with a healthy majority of 8,855 votes, and would probably endorse a Laborite again. But thanks to the election of new Conservative Leader Ted Heath, and Labor's harsh anti-inflationary measures, the latest Gallup poll puts the Tories 7% ahead of Labor. There is just a ghost of a chance that a Tory might capture Dodds's seat, reducing Wilson's majority to a grand total...
...returned to the U.S. in 1961, he was playing better than ever, helped popularize the bossa nova. One album, with Brazilian Guitarist João Gilberto, was belatedly released last year. It became one of the best-selling jazz albums of all time. Winner of nearly every jazz popularity poll in the past two years, he recently moved into a 23-room, century-old mansion in Irvington, N.Y., with his wife and five children, this year expects to make a cool $250,000. Looking back, Stan Getz says: "It's been a struggle. You either get bitter from those...
...that eliminates virtually the whole artful apparatus of legalisms that has successfully disfranchised the Negroes in their state for nearly a century−including the requirements that a voter be of "good moral character" and be able to define good citizenship. Though Mississippians must still pay a $2 state poll tax and show minimal literacy to qualify for the voting rolls, the first of these barriers is under challenge in federal courts, and the second has been circumvented by the 1965 Voting Rights Act, under which federal registrars can enroll anyone without regard to literacy. Thus it is only...