Word: polled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HCUA refused to count Miss Levine's votes in Monday's semifinal election, but unofficial poll-watchers reported that she received more than enough support to quality...
Curious as to what sort of following charlatans have, the newspaper France-Soir sponsored a public-opinion poll that suggested that 58% of all Frenchmen could say under what sign of the zodiac they had been born, 53% regularly read their daily horoscopes in the press, 43% thought of astrologers as scientists, 38% intended to have their horoscopes drawn up by an astrologer, and 37% believed that character traits correspond to zodiacal signs. More to France's credit was the fact that the most avid believers turned out to be farmers, people over 65 and workers earning less than...
Tragic Role. But last week as the nation held its first postindependence general election, there was precious little brotherhood, and Nigeria's model democracy lay in a shambles of violence, poll rigging, boycotting and threats. Any Nigerian who still felt like hailing his own dear native land would have to be quick about it: Nigeria was perilously close to a political breakup. "If Nigeria must disintegrate, then in the name of God, let the operation be short and painless," mourned President Nnamdi ("Zik") Azikiwe in a nationwide radio broadcast, calling on politicians to "summon a round-table conference...
...eventually changed his name and instrument, and, as Jazz Flutist Herbie Mann, has be come at 34 one of the most successful jazzmen in the business. This week he was voted the top musician in his field for the eighth consecutive year in the Down Beat magazine readers' poll. But, to the inner circle of jazz aficionados, Herbie is still not with it. Mainly, says Mann, "because I've committed the cardinal sin of being successful...
...rule had a short but fruitful life. Under it, an anti-poll tax bill, housing and minimum wage acts, the bill establishing the National Science Foundation, Alaska and Hawaii statehood measures, and several other bills were called to the floor. The threat of the rule forced the committee to act by itself on other occasions. But the rule s success was its downfall; when the Republican-Southern Democratic coalition came back into power in 1951, the 21-day rule was repealed immediately...