Word: straws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only the Business School was Nixonian. Yet in the Senatorial straw poll of 1962 Harvard College went back to the fold and endorsed the unsuccessful George Cabot Lodge by a 52% majority...
...every area in the University united behind Lyndon Johnson. Not since the election of William McKinley in 1896 has a major party candidate been so devastated so unanimously in a Harvard straw poll. That year William Jennings Bryan raised the same issue of East versus West sectionalism that Barry Goldwater has raised in this election; apparently the only issue which draws together, and unites even the Law and Business Schools, even the Faculty and the freshmen...
...Straw polls taken at colleges across the country show considerable student support for the Johnson-Humphrey ticket. Goldwater sentiment is understandably strongest in Southern colleges; Johnson fans are heavily concentrated in the East. Mid-Westerners are more sharply split. East Johnson Goldwater Mount Holyoke 74 per cent 19 per cent Colgate 65 per cent 22 per cent Trinity 60 per cent 35 per cent University of Maine 80 per cent 13 per cent MIT 51 per cent 32 per cent (13 per cent Lodge) Wellesley 76 per cent 24 per cent Boston College 71 per cent 27 per cent Wheaton...
Goldwater supporters, according to the more than 5000 straw polls the Crimson received last week, are liable to major not in the traditionally conservative natural sciences, but rather in the social sciences...
Died. Games Slayter, 67, inventor of Fiberglas; of a heart attack; in Columbus. A recently retired vice president of Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp., Slayter developed a straw-thick glass fiber for air filters in 1931, after seven more years of research came up with the fine, flexible "glass wool" now used for everything from draperies to boat hulls, winning his company more than 130 lucrative patents...