Word: polling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thorniest item, however, is one that is not in the Senate bill-a House-approved ban of the poll tax for state and local elections in Alabama, Mississippi, Virginia and Texas. Although such a ban was strongly urged by Teddy and Bobby Kennedy, the Senate rejected it. Under pressure from House liberals, Brooklyn Democrat Emanuel Celler, floor manager for the bill, supported the ban, though it caused him some embarrassment. Back in 1961, Celler opposed eliminating the poll tax by statute, proposed doing so by constitutional amendment instead. Last week Louisiana Democrat Joe D. Waggonner Jr. suggested that Celler...
...chair-and the $55,000-a-year expense account that goes with it. Before the dust cleared, 18 other assemblymen, all Liberal Democrats, had followed Koyama into jail, and a storm of public outrage forced the assembly to dissolve itself in shame. Little wonder that a nationwide public opinion poll late last month showed Sato's popularity at an alltime low for a Japanese Premier: 24.4% v. 49.9% when he took office in November...
...Gallup poll last week reported that, of those expressing opinions, 23.6% would continue present policy in Viet Nam, 35.4% would increase military action, while 38.4% would stop...
Asian Acceptance. Realizing that European migration alone can never adequately populate the land, many leading Australians now advocate selective Asian immigration. A Gallup poll reported recently that 73% of the population (v. 44% in 1958) would approve at least a small annual quota of skilled Asians. Apart from the economic strain, the government is all too aware of the strategic perils of underpopulation. With 3,000 fighting men in Malaysia (see story above) and a battalion in Viet Nam, half of Australia's combat-ready forces are already tied down in the widening struggle for Southeast Asia...
...power of the poll, alumni at Yale and Cornell last week put on their governing boards men of a religion and a race never before represented on either ruling body...