Word: polling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recent poll of Harvard students by the HUC, which received a 62 per cent negative response to the idea, was taken into consideration by the committee, he added...
...Eloquence. He will need more than glad glands. A January survey by the esteemed State Poll showed that the two foremost candidates for the Republican nomination were both widening their earlier leads over Brown. Actor Ronald Reagan was ahead by 4.4% , former San Francisco Mayor George Christopher by 15.1%. Brown brushed this aside with his wonted non-eloquence: "I've never been ahead in any poll, but when it gets right down to the 18th hole and you have to sink those long putts...
...fact, the Governor had already pulled away from his only potential Democratic challenger. The same poll gave him a 33.1% lead over Los Angeles' Mayor Sam Yorty, a longtime foe, who greeted Brown's announcement with a four-page tirade castigating the Governor for everything from allowing "delay, confusion and influence peddling" in state affairs to letting leftists and "cynical mercenaries" take over the party. Countered Brown: "Mayor Yorty made a similar vicious attack on President John F. Kennedy, and that's all I have to say about that...
...test," he asserted. "A person who cannot afford three meals a day is going to think twice about paying for the right to vote." Negro Attorney Joseph Jordan noted that no member of his race has served in the Virginia legislature since the pretax days of Reconstruction. The poll tax, he said, had removed Negro legislators as effectively as "a magic wand...
...quiz ratings, Friendly enemies at rival networks have joined the test patterns. Last week NBC asked, "Is Anybody Honest?", then showed that more than a third of the country would lie, cheat and steal at the drop of the other fellow's wallet. ABC's forthcoming People Poll ("starring Garry Moore and You") will examine such profound questions as "Should the husband be the boss in the household?" (Yes, say 57% of a Gallup pre-poll), and "Is the husband boss in your household...