Word: traded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...error margin of as much as two or three percentage points is routinely assumed as a hazard of the pollster's trade-but that could hardly account for the startling discrepancies in last week's results. All three pollsters used basically the same techniques, although they often differ in their philosophies of interpretation. Gallup, for example, believes that "our job begins and ends with the reporting of facts." Harris argues that survey results are meaningful only if they are digested and interpreted. Each pollster has his own methods. Harris likes to reinterview some one he has already talked...
...anything, last week's consensus statement simply made matters worse. In persuading Gallup to endorse the apologia, Harris may have widened the trade's credibility gap to the dimensions of 1948, when virtually every opinion sampling was ushering New York's Thomas E. Dewey into the White House. Twenty years later, the memory of that year sends shudders down the spines of all pollsters. One pollster called last week's results "a fiasco." Another, Burns Roper, observed: "If this statement of 'open lead' for Rockefeller is construed by readers as being designed to influence...
...same time, Dubček went to great lengths to assure Moscow of Czechoslovakia's continued loyalty to the Communist bloc. He pledged, as he has in the past, that his country would not suddenly change its trade pattern and would remain solidly moored in the Communist economic community. He also declared that the party would use its influence to discourage anti-Socialist and anti-Soviet broadcasts and articles, and that he would require all political associations to function within the party-dominated National Front. All these, however, were minor concessions -the price of preserving Czechoslovakia's cherished...
Excited Fishing. No more professional golfer than Boros has ever won the P.G.A. At 48 and in his 19th year on the tour, he has arthritis, bursitis, myocarditis ("whatever that is"), and a resigned attitude toward his trade. "I would like to drop off the tour," he says, "but I've got seven kids to educate, and the first one starts college in a couple of years. Where else could I make this kind of money?" Where indeed? In his pro career, Boros has won more than $650,000, and his income lately has stabilized at a pleasantly plump...
...humane future. The conviction behind Shapiro's courage has long been that organized cultural activities subvert "the fine arts"; he sees the latest threat in a corrupting coalition of irresponsible youth and commercial clowns. In To Abolish Children, the title essay in his assortment of literary trade pieces wrapped around "a fragment of a novel in progress," Shapiro quakes about "these freewheeling organisms equipped with electric guitars." But his arguments are smothered by his indignation...