Word: survey
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...farmworkers do not support Chavez and his strikes." As evidence of this "fact" Mr. Ferrara cites several positions and a survey of "71 non-union grape pickers." Unfortunately, there is no way of saying exactly how extensive support for the union is. The UFW has called for elections to determine what the workers want. But the growers and the Teamsters have consistently refused, bitterly opposing state and federal laws that would require union elections...
Veto-Proof. The opinion polls offer the G.O.P. no comfort. A Roper survey delivered last month revealed that only 21% of U.S. voters considered themselves Republicans (v. 48% Democrats and 26% independents). The Gallup poll, meanwhile, shows that the percentage of Americans who consider themselves Republicans has dropped from 28% in 1972 to 23%. Another Gallup survey out this week discloses that voters plan to back Democratic congressional candidates over Republicans by a margin...
Until 1970 David Kunst was known as a good provider for his wife Jan and three small children; he headed a county survey crew and at night worked as a projectionist at the local theater. But he was also a restless young man who loved drag racing and hated the complacency he found around him. "A few years ago something snapped," he said. "I made up my mind that I would do something that would be a little different. I was tired of Waseca, tired of my job and a lot of little people who didn't want...
...Crimson survey this week showed Columbia University, Yale University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduate schools all offering a greater percentage of places to blacks in their 1974-75 entering classes than Harvard...
Given the importance of the decisions that will be made this year, The Crimson thought it would be useful to take a look at coeducation at the other seven Ivy League schools. What follows, then, is a survey of admissions policies and administrative structures in the Ivies as they bear on co-education. Some of the schools have moved more slowly than Harvard and some more quickly, but Harvard has, in general, been unusually receptive to the idea of co-education and unusually resistant to merger...