Word: polling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...military headquarters that has just learned of an enemy breakthrough. Party Chairman Lord Hailsham galloped off to Bournemouth posthaste. At week's end, in a tense, three-hour session with Bournemouth Tory leaders. Hailsham persuaded them to accept the hated Nigel Nicolson again, if a private postal poll shows that he would win a majority of the 7,500 Tory voters in the. constituency...
...favorite, according to last week's poll, was May Splitch. However, she was forced to withdraw after breaking both ankles in the semi-finals...
...print the results of a recent Gallup poll on whether Dulles is right to keep U.S. troops in Kremlin-menaced Berlin [Dec. 29]. The most interesting result is not that 60% of those polled agree with Mr. Dulles but that almost one-fourth are not familiar with the problem that might bring on World War III. What we probably need is fewer public polls and more public education...
Last year set a new record for church-going in the U.S., and the churchgoingest part of the country was the Midwest, the Gallup Poll reports. During an average 1958 week, more than 50 million U.S. adults went to church-nearly a million more than at the previous peak in 1955. This represents 54% of the population in the Midwest, 52% of the East, 51% of the South, and only 35% of the Far West. Women attended more faithfully than men (55% to 45%). Roman Catholics, for whom weekly Mass is obligatory, were more regular than Protestants...
...another year, Eleanor Roosevelt was the living woman most admired by the nation, as sounded out by Pollster George Gallup. Runner-ups to Mrs. Roosevelt (a ten-time winner in the poll), this year as well as last, were Queen Elizabeth and Clare Boothe Luce. In fourth place: Mamie Eisenhower, sixth in popularity last year. For the seventh time, the pollees ranked President Eisenhower as the most admired living man, trailed by Sir Winston Churchill, Dr. Albert Schweitzer, Evangelist Billy Graham and Harry Truman, who slipped from last year's third spot. Newcomers to this year's list...