Word: polling
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Should the College encourage this kind of undergraduate? It already gives him sufficient encouragement by admitting him. According to the Harvard Policy Committee's poll, 74 percent of Harvard undergraduates would take a fifth course on a pass-fail option. Seventy-four percent, then, need to be reeducated out of their high school habits. Harvard already has sufficient devices to impede this reeducation. Why add another? Josiah Lee Auspitz...
...ceiling on presidential visibility was deliberately kept low. Johnson is disturbed by his precipitous plunge in popularity (43% in the latest Lou Harris Poll). Though he himself ascribes this to the normal vicissitudes of U.S. politics, he and his advisers have agreed that his wisest course of action may be to continue to lie low for the time being; in 1966, he spent some 90 days in relative seclusion along the Pedernales River...
Tonight, the mighty Princeton basketball team--with five men averaging in double figures, ranked seventh in the nation in the AP poll, conquerers of North Carolina--immortal Princeton will appear at the IAB beginning...
...dips below the 20 per cent mark in the latest Louis Harris Poll. Arm in-arm with Ladybird and their two beagles, the President reminds reporters, "I'm still more popular than Jesus." Harrison Salisbury is arrested in Hanoi after photographing smiling North Vietnamese children in front of intact building...
Malign Planets. Last week the seers were busier than ever making their forecasts for the new year, and, as usual, their admirers could take their choice. France's Madame Frederika, voted most reliable voyante of 1966 by a poll of Paris newspapers (on the basis, among other things, of her prediction that two French scientists would win the Nobel Prize), predicted that Germany would make significant advances toward reunification and that Russia might land on the moon. England's Maurice Woodruff foresaw a turnabout in England's fortunes, the fall from power of both Castro and Lyndon...