Word: polled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...threeyear, $435 million Administration program to retrain unemployed workers. After an embarrassing filibuster by Democratic Senate liberals, the Administration's plan to set up a private corporation to operate a communications satellite system was approved. After a mild Southern filibuster, Congress approved a constitutional amendment to outlaw poll taxes in federal elections, sent it on its lengthy route toward ratification by the states. With Berlin and Cuba still in the headlines, the Administration got all it really wanted for defense -and more: Congress insisted on authorizing funds the President did not want for development of the RS-70 aircraft...
...Lubell, conducting a door-to-door survey of eleven Michigan precincts, found that one of every five voters who went for Democratic Governor John Swainson in 1960 now plans to support Republican George Romney. Those figures, if projected, would indicate a sizable Romney victory. But a new Detroit News poll reported that Romney's lead over Swainson was narrowing, now stood at a breathless...
Call Me Mister. Just before the fight, sentiment for Patterson had run so high that a poll of boxing writers turned up 51 experts who thought Patterson, at 189 lbs., would win. Only 32 favored the 214-lb. Liston, realistically noting his obvious advantage in size, reach and strength. He had won 33 of 34 fights, 23 of them by knockouts; no one had ever knocked him down...
...Republican hopes for congressional gains in the Midwest are pinned partly on the belief that farmers are unhappy about federal farm policy, now administered by a Democratic Administration. This belief was bolstered by a Minnesota poll showing that only 35% of the state's farmers approve of the way Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman, a former Minnesota Governor, is performing his duties...
...recent Boston University poll of Methodist clergy and laymen found only 23% advocating that Methodists "should seek full union with all Christian bodies willing to explore the possibility." Sixty-three percent preferred that Methodists only cooperate with other Christian bodies in activities that can be done better to gether than separately. Says the Rev. H. F. Lawhorn of Atlanta's Capitol View Methodist Church: "We ought to remember what Christ said-'Other sheep have I, . not of this fold...