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HCUA president R. Thomas Seymour '64 emphasized last night that the freshman poll was in no way connected with the larger study of parietal rules which the Council is undertaking. Instead, a special subcommittee, headed by Val Lewthwaite '67 and composed of three freshmen and three upperclassmen, will conduct the survey independently of the main HCUA report...
Lewthwaite said night that the poll was not designed as a device "specifically to extend freshman parietal hours, but merely as a means to assess the present situation...
Ironically, for all their emphasis on foreign affairs, the Tories may be saved by the recent economic upsurge, which could be the palliative necessary to prevent a wide-spread voter revolt. But statistics are hardly encouraging. A recent Daily Telegraph Gallup poll reported that Labor led the Conservatives by 9 1/2 percentage points. And the disastrous Tory record in by-elections was continued last week when they absorbed a surprisingly large defeat at Luton. As an industrial town with full employment and considerable prosperity, Luton typifies more than a hundred constituencies which the Tories win to retain power...
...their Labor opponents, who elect their leaders, the Tories have no formal method of selection: Instead, senior ministers take delicate soundings within the party to arrive at the "proper consensus." It must have rankled Rab Butler that the "consensus" decided on the aristocratic Home while a nation-wide Gallup poll found Butler to be as strong a Prime Ministerial candidate as Labor's Harold Wilson...
...forces, proposed that the prelates be allowed to take a straw vote on the four key propositions of the schema. Up popped the council's secretary-general, Archbishop Pericle Felici of the Curia, to argue that there was no provision in the rules of order for any such poll...