Word: polling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more boyish "Teddy" is heard less and less, picks his issues with care, works diligently and displays tact with his elders. He can, and does, challenge leaders of both parties in disputes ranging from expanded social security benefits to ending the poll tax, but he avoids the maverick's stigma. He can and has gigged the Administration into paying closer heed to the Vietnamese refugee problem and dropping support for the National Rifle Association's annual matches, but he has not made himself controversial. In short, the senior Senator from Massachusetts seems determined to live up to John F. Kennedy...
...best way to be really effective." Ted has followed the advice faithfully. After his first couple of quiet years, Kennedy zeroed in on immigration and civil rights. He helped draft and promote the 1965 immigration-reform act, then led a spirited drive to have local poll taxes banned in that year's voting-rights bill. Bucking both conservatives and some fellow liberals, Kennedy lost on the poll-tax ban by four votes, but established himself as a Senator to be reckoned with...
...this difficult juncture, the omens are perhaps more favorable than otherwise. One of the more thought-provoking conclusions of a poll of the U.S. Negro community reported by Harvard Sociologist Gary Marx suggests that tolerance for the white man increases in proportion to Negro civil rights militance. The black to fear is the one who has not yet been exposed to the discipline of self-pride-the unawakened 75% Negro majority that lies outside the civil rights movement, and has felt almost none of its effects. This Negro has nothing to lose by venting his frustrations in violence...
...equally traumatic devaluation of Harold Wilson and his government. Crowds mounted a week-long vigil on the sidewalk opposite No. 10 Downing Street, some of them crying: "Get out, you silly nits." In most un-British fashion, eggs were hurled at Chancellor of the Exchequer James Callaghan. A poll published by the Daily Mail reported that 54% of British voters thought that Wilson should resign, and that 56% believed that devaluation was the result of Labor's mismanagement. In the only chance that Britons had to express their judgment with ballots, the by-election voters of West Derbyshire more...
...college football's "game of the year." U.C.L.A. against Southern Cal. The No. 1 team in the nation against No. 3 (or No. 4, depending on the poll). Passer Gary Beban against Runner O. J. Simpson. At stake: the Pacific Eight title, a Rose Bowl bid and the Heisman Trophy. "Whichever team wins this game should be the national champion," insisted Southern Cal Coach John McKay. After what happened last Saturday-U.C.L.A.'s Beban passing for two T.D.s, U.S.C.'s Simpson running for two, Southern Cal winning by the slim margin of a missed extra point...