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Sponsored by the Harvard-Radcliffe Committee for a Youth Service Program, the poll is designed to find out how many undergraduates are interested in serving in the Corps, how the prospects of being drafted--or receiving an exemption--will influence their decision, and what aspects of the program appeal to them most...
Even as Dwight Eisenhower's Republican Party was losing the 1960 election, 58% of the U.S. public, according to a Gallup poll taken in late October, approved of the way he was doing his job. Ike's popularity has averaged an astonishing 61% throughout his last year in office. By contrast, Harry Truman's popular backing in October...
Champagne Finish. Even without going into the selection room, Jubilee reports, 51% of Protestant clergymen and 41% of their Roman Catholic brethren feel, according to a recent poll, that undertakers exploit bereaved families at least part of the time. The grief-stricken, notes Psychology of Funeral Service, "are less capable of reasoning than under normal conditions . . . They want to do the accepted thing . . ." And some people's idea of the accepted thing can run as high as a $19,000 casket with "Ever-Seal air, watertight construction, and Ever-Rite adjustable bed, all in a zestful champagne finish...
Brooklyn, Connecticut, site of the CRIMSON's pre-election poll, re-affirmed its status as a bellwether area last Tuesday, once again voting for the national winner. The hamlet gave President-elect Kennedy 890 votes to vice-President Richard M. Nixon...
Kennedy's 51.1 per cent to 45.9 per cent triumph, however, was neither as close as the CRIMSON poll had indicated nor as close as the national vote. After two days of polling last week, the CRIMSON came up with the following figures...