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...does the U.S. public regard the Nixon Administration's decision to intervene across the borders of Cambodia? After nearly a month of listening to criticism and defense, the nation seems to be sharply divided. Pollster Louis Harris reports that 50% of the public believe that the decision was a correct one, while 43% say that they have "serious doubts." He also finds that 54% of the people think that it was not "proper and constitutional for the President to order troops into Cambodia without the consent of Congress." Forty-nine percent regard the move as having "divided" Americans more...
Sense of Community. Calder ably combines the methods of the journalist, historian, sociologist, researcher, pollster and commentator to tell how it was to be a British civilian in Hitler's war. The cumulative effect is occasionally overwhelming. The innocent bystander (if 25 years' distance makes the reader innocent) picks his way through the human rubble of five ruinous years of war and still wonders how the British managed to "take it." The impression is clear, though, that only a people long nourished by a willingness to "put up with things" and a strong sense of community could have...
Once they arrive?hardly anyone "settles"?no familial or community traditions bind them. "That's why we have so many nuts out here," says Los Angeles Pollster Don Muchmore. "People come and do things here that they wouldn't normally do back home because such behavior is unacceptable. They don't want to answer to the neighbors. They want the independence of being who they are and what they are, when they want to. It's a sort of Paradise situation...
...during Barry Goldwater's heyday in 1964 that Pollster Mervin Field asked California voters to see themselves as the politicians saw them. The result was a fairly even division. Of those polled, 32% regarded themselves as conservatives, 30% as middle-of-the-roaders and 28% as liberals. When Field recently asked Californians to take another look at themselves, the results reflected a swing to the right. Of the 1,006 questioned in the poll released last week, 42% now see themselves as conservatives and 27% as moderates, while only 24% still feel comfortable with the liberal label...
...stopgap president, S. I. Hayakawa, proved every whit as hardheaded as the cops in riot helmets whom he called to quell turmoil on his campus. Day after day, newspapers and TV showed the Japanese-American semanticist with his academic Bushido fully aroused. The result of all that public exposure, Pollster Mervin Field reported last week, is another instant political personality...