Word: rune
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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POLITICAL poll taking in recent years has proved considerably more reliable than oneiromancy, haruspication or the casting of rune stones. George Gallup has erred in his election polls by only 1.5% since 1954. Yet last week, Gallup and Louis Harris published such divergent interpretations of the preconvention G.O.P. standings that Gallup's son and partner, George Jr., admitted that the psephologists were facing "a credibility-gap problem...
...when Japan's Dr. Chozo Oshima sampled a bisonburger, he had to pronounce it "not for the Japanese palate." Since television in most of the world is government-owned and often without advertising, tourists are fascinated by American television, particularly the commercials, which left Swedish Visitors Inga and Rune Svensson with the impression that "Americans live on Bufferin...
Tourists grow weary of being told that something, as Inga Svensson puts it, "is the tallest or the biggest in the world." The Svenssons were delighted to discover that American movies run continuously, but appalled at the debris under their seats. In one movie theater, Rune's feet literally got glued to the floor in the sticky residue of gum, candy and spilled soft drinks. Baseball bored him: "They just kept throwing the ball and missing it." Except in New York, visitors note, no American ever seems to walk anywhere. One English hiker set out across the Golden Gate...