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...growing dream of the average American is to send his children to college. What about the hard reality? Last week, after a nationwide survey for the Ford Foundation, Pollster Elmo Roper summed up the aspirations and posed some nagging financial questions. Items...
...Pollster Elmo Roper promptly criticized Rockefeller for letting his decision rest upon a mere "popularity poll" when he "ought to make up his mind whether the things he believes in are more likely to come about if he is President." Pollster George Gallup, who last July showed Nixon trailing Democrat Adlai Stevenson 44% to 56%, reported that Nixon's Russian trip boosted his trial-heat vote to 51% v. 49% for Stevenson...
...lengthy interviews with 2500 social scientists, the book tries to appraise the effect of McCarthyism on American scholars and teachers. The questionnaires were designed by Paul Lazarsfeld and the Columbia Bureau for Applied Social Research, financed by Robert Hutchins' Fund for the Republic, and administered in 1955 by Elmo Roper and the National Opinion Research Center...
ROLAND D. ROPER...
Protestant Theologian Paul Tillich; Author Lewis Mumford; the Rev. Harry Emerson Fosdick, pastor emeritus of Manhattan's Riverside Church; Pollster Elmo Roper; National Farmers Union Boss James G. Patton (who runs N.C.S.N.P. material free in N.F.U. publications); Sociologist David (The Lonely Crowd) Riesman; Librettist Oscar (South Pacific) Hammerstein II; and the committee's scientific anchor man, Caltech's busy chemist and busy politician, Dr. Linus Carl Pauling, longtime supporter of Communist-line fronts,* whose ideology was never noticeably shaken by the suppression inside the Soviet Union for years of his own Nobel Prizewinning discovery about the resonance...