Word: survey
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Unquestionably, public confidence in authority has sunk. Last week Pollster Louis Harris reported that people surveyed in January had an even lower opinion of Congress than they did of President Nixon, whose popularity has been at an all-time low for months. Harris found 69% of Americans thought Congress was doing only a "fair" or "poor" job. In an earlier survey, 68% of those polled expressed similar negative feelings about Nixon. Says Harris: "The federal establishment looks paralyzed, inept and impotent. In ten years of the Harris survey, confidence has never been this low before...
...first time in decades, too, once self-confident Americans are growing pessimistic about their personal welfare. In a survey for TIME last November, Opinion Analyst Daniel Yankelovich reported, 72% of the public thought that national affairs were going "very badly" or "pretty badly," but some 90% said that all was "very well" or "fairly well" with their personal lives. Now, chiefly because of rising prices and the fuel shortage, Yankelovich estimates that only 50% to 60% still have the same sense of personal well being. Surveying 500 families in the Chicago area, the Exchange National Bank discovered that while...
Michigan Tech, with a 22-6-6 record, continues to lead the poll voted by a panel of ten coaches from the three major college leagues in the country. Radio station WMPL in Hancock, Michigan, conducts the survey...
...Harrison, indomitable doyenne on the Washington social circuit for decades. The nation's mighty court her, celebrities seek invitations to tea, Washington taxi drivers lean out and yell, "Hi, Alice!" Marking her 90th birthday this week, "Princess Alice," an affectionate sobriquet from her White House years, continues to survey the capital scene from her rambling mansion on Washington's Embassy Row. TIME'S Bonnie Angelo called on the irrepressible grande dame recently and found her in zesty good form...
...Striding purposefully from board to board, Spassky occasionally paused to survey troublesome tactical positions. There were few. One by one, the opponents tipped over their kings to acknowledge surrender. "It's like Off-Track Betting," said Charles Hidalgo, one of the victims. "There are few smiling faces when people leave OTB, and there are going to be even fewer smiling faces leaving here. There will be, maybe...