Word: run
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard College alumnus (A.B., 1939), I think your "faceless factory" analysis is apt. It is the Harvard Corporation that must go! Harvard and similar institutions should be run by scholars and scientists (faculty), some students, outside laymen...
...opinion with the Elmo Roper organization and then founded his own firm in 1956, he came to national prominence as chief polltaker for John Kennedy. Since then, he has made political soundings for nearly 50 U.S. Senators and a score of Governors, taken commercial surveys for many firms, and run polls for TV, magazines and newspapers; his own column, distributed by the Chicago Tribune-New York Daily News Syndicate, appears in over 50 papers across the U.S. For any given poll, he can call on a nationwide network of 27 field supervisors and some 3,000 part-time "stringers...
...degree from the University of Southern California. Against Nixon's advice, he decided, at 26, to challenge veteran Congressman Cecil King in a strongly Democratic district. Two years later, he tried and lost again. In 1962, he returned Nixon the favor, advising him against his disastrous run for the California governorship. For once, he stayed out of a Nixon campaign...
Even on the question of running that risk over Mexico, there is no clear agreement, for different segments of the population respond differently. Harris found that Easterners would not run the nuclear risk for Mexico, 36% to 49%, while Westerners would, 51% to 36%; the explanation, presumably, is the obvious difference in geographical proximity. The young (under 35) tend to oppose use of nuclear weapons in the context of a Soviet-supported Cuban threat to Mexico by 43% to 40%, while their elders generally favor it by slightly more than the same margin. Those who voted for Humphrey...
...country, and quietly told friends that "I will either be the next President of France or the leader of the opposition." He campaigned hard for De Gaulle's referendum, but he never took the step that some Gaullists urged on him: to promise publicly that he would not run for the presidency if De Gaulle lost...