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According to California's respected The State Poll, Brown would take 40.2% of the votes cast in a Democratic primary today, compared with 25.4% for his biggest rival, Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty. A Republican primary would give Reagan 34.2% v. 20.6% for U.S. Senator Tom Kuchel, who took himself out of the race last week after months of indecision. However, the poll rates Republican Kuchel as the strongest of all candidates in a general election, placing him ahead of Brown, 55.2% to 27.1%, and Yorty, 46.1% to 29.7%. The results also indicate that Brown would be less effective...
Paradoxically, the rioting in his own city strengthened Yorty but cost Civil Rights Advocate Brown from 3% to 4% of his support. Nonetheless, the poll cautioned, Brown "has the capacity to come from behind, and has done so twice before." There was better news for the G.O.P. "On the basis of polls taken at comparable times," The State Poll concluded, "the Republicans are in a better position today than at any time since...
...Education Association appointed a 20-man Educational Policies Commission, including President Conant and Dwight Eisenhower of Columbia, to examine the problem. The commission's conclusion was that "Communists should not be employed as teachers" because membership in the CP meant that they had surrendered their intellectual integrity. In a poll taken among Harvard Faculty members by the Crimson, this point of view was upheld, 218 to 108. Those critical of the commission report felt that a blanket rule should not be applied and that each individual should be judged separately according to his fitness to teach...
...offered some revisionist thinking. "By any objective standards," said Huey's son, taking the long view, "Huey Long was the best Governor Louisiana ever had." As a matter of fact, said the Senator, recalling what Dad dictated in the way of social and welfare programs (abolition of the poll tax, free night schools for illiterates, free textbooks for children, doubling the capacity of charity hospitals), "many people think that Roosevelt became interested in social security because he needed something to build a backfire against some of the headway Huey Long was making." Now, added Russell...
With the furniture still being moved in, however, Torontonians were in no mood to cast too fine an eye on their new joy and pride. A poll indicated that nine out of ten were enthusiastic. Typical was the response of one home-town girl back from Italy: "Just looking at that building makes me proud." And as for incumbent Mayor Philip Givens, he could barely contain his pride. "It's unusual, unique, daring, bold," he declared. "It typifies the spirit of Toronto. It's a smasheroo...