Word: polling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Later in the month the results of a poll in 14 universities gave the CRIMSON cause to brake all form with a big banner headline: "Students Cast Overwhelming Wet Vote." 15,000 of the 24,000 polled had indicated that they at least drank; and of Harvard's 3,500 polled, more than half of the 2,600 who drank admitted drunkenness. One student even scribbled on his poll, "I'd rather be tight than President...
...business that soon separates the men from the boys. At 27 Writer-Director Stanley Kubrick, in his third full-length picture, has shown more audacity with dialogue and camera than Hollywood has seen since the obstreperous Orson Welles went riding out of town on an exhibitors' poll. What's more, Director Kubrick made his entire movie for a price ($320,000) that would hardly pay for the lingerie in an Ava Gardner picture, with the result that The Killing seems likely to make a killing at the cash booths...
...Christian Democrats wrested such big cities as Turin, Venice, Genoa, Pisa and Florence from the Communists with the help of a tricky electoral law-since repealed-which awarded two-thirds of the seats in a city government to the party polling the most votes. This time, proportional representation rules in all cities and large towns, and Christian Democrats may find themselves without a governing majority even in towns where they top the popular poll...
Results of a poll held last week among members of the Freshman class showed an almost even split among those in favor of retaining the annual gathering and those in favor of abolishing it. Among 450, who answered the poll, 208 favored the amendment, 206 opposed it, and 36 voiced no opinion...
Well aware that every passing poll and primary attests to Dwight Eisenhower's extraordinary popularity with the voters, reporters at the President's press conference last week were fascinated by his unorthodox reaction to it all. Said the National Broadcasting Co.'s Ray Scherer: "You have generally said that you find yourself amazed that people would take the trouble to vote for you. I wonder if I could presume to ask why you find that such a phenomenon...