Word: polls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...among a list of twelve candidates compiled by the subcommittee from the results of a poll last fall asking seniors to state their choice for Class Day Speaker...
...public is beginning to share that belief. A Gallup Poll last month reported that only 36% of those polled thought that too much was being spent on defense, down from 44% in September 1974. The growing worries about U.S. military strength have been skillfully exploited by Ronald Reagan, who has caustically attacked Ford's defense policies (see story page 19). For his part, Ford has adopted "peace through strength" as his campaign slogan and promised last week to take the unprecedented step of vetoing any Pentagon budget that is much lower than what he has proposed. Senators and Representatives...
...administrator, Foot has been a Cabinet minister only since 1974 and has never held any of the top portfolios normally considered essential background for No. 10. Beyond that, Foot was thought to be especially vulnerable in a general election campaign against Tory Leader Margaret Thatcher. In one Sunday Times poll, only 7% of the Labor voters named Foot as their first choice to be Prime Minister; 33% found him "not acceptable." Callaghan, on the other hand, was the first choice...
This is how the league shapes up this year, in the order that the Ivy teams were ranked in the most recent national poll: CORNELL [3-0, 2nd in the country]-- Harvard coach Bob Scalise says that Cornell is still the team to beat in the Ivy League, and said matter of factly several weeks ago that the Big Red should win the national championship. Maryland, Hopkins, and Navy still have something to say about that, but Cornell does not return the best attack in the country--All-America and Ivy League "Player of the Year" Eamon McEneaney, All-America...
Apparently, Brown's candidacy did not strike that many people as unpleasantly unorthodox-without campaigning, he finished higher in the Gallup Poll than either Henry Jackson or Morris Udall...