Word: polling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While the prediction of human behavior will never become an exact science, it should be noted that in the past seven national elections, the Gallup poll has, on the average, been right within 2 percentage points of absolute accuracy, and has never been farther off the mark than 2.8 percentage points...
...November election, the Gallup poll produced the most accurate survey results in its history, and the best in the history of polling...
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...Firestone dealers for $1 a throw. Even her rare appearances on television ring up records. Her last TV special, in November 1965, pulled 35 million viewers-more than the Streisand show or the Carol Channing show or the Sinatra show that season. Small wonder that the Motion Picture Herald poll of exhibitors, to be published next month, will name Andrews as the No. 1 box-office star of the year.* She has already completed her fifth movie, Thoroughly Modern Millie, a Boy Friend-like musical about the '20s, and will soon start Star, a biography of Gertrude Lawrence ("Their...
...This poll was conducted at a peak time, when the library was filled to near capacity," Lowenstein said. "We observed that over half the students were boys." Yet the 90 girls polled were fairly evenly divided between "partial exclusion" and "no restrictions," the latter having a slight edge of 8-10 votes...