Word: polled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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According to a poll taken earlier this year, most Cliffies believe that the Fourth House should be used to relieve crowding in the existing dormitories, not to increase Radcliffe's enrollment...
...Democratic Majority Leader Mike Mansfield and Katzenbach. Each man set his own legal staff to work, writing drafts of the new bill, refining, plugging loopholes, setting new standards, comparing notes. At each stage Lyndon Johnson studied the proposals and made suggestions. The 24th Amendment to the Constitution already outlaws poll taxes in federal elections, and now Johnson wanted a section abolishing poll taxes in local elections too. Katzenbach advised against it, since the Supreme Court is expected soon to rule on a suit involving Virginia's poll...
...apartment last week. They were headed just around the corner to vote in the municipal elections. Walking under a huge sign that read "Dobro Pozhalovat" (Welcome), Khrushchev waved off a voting official who signaled him to the head of the line. When he reached the table, a young woman poll watcher asked him for his identity papers before handing him his ballot. "Don't you trust me?" Khrushchev quipped. "Yes," said the girl with a blush, "of course we trust...
French Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre, 59, felt alone. According to a Gallup poll, 67% of the U.S. population supports the air strikes on North Viet Nam. Sartre is 100% against them. "When contradictory opinions have hardened, dialogue is no longer possible," he announced in Paris, canceling a three-week U.S. tour during which he was scheduled to lecture on "Ethics and History" at Cornell and at Manhattan's Y.M.H.A. Professor Jean-Jacques Demorest, Sartre's stood-up host at Cornell, was regretful but philosophical. "Sartre," said he, "is drawing more and more into abstract idealism. What he wants...
...Washington, NAACP Executive Director Roy Wilkins told a House judiciary sub-committee that the administration's civil rights voting bill is good, but not good enough. He asked for now safeguards, including the elimination of the poll tax as a requirement in state and local elections...