Word: turnout
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With a scant 45 invitations for outsiders alloted each fraternity, the non-Dartmouth turnout was rather poor. But the natives are extremely cordial both to guests and occasional gate-crashers. There are liquor, women, and a slap on the back for anyone looking at all disposed to be friendly, and the Dartmouths are liberal hosts...
...Pentagon conceded that the bop campaign was the most, to say the least. In their first five days on the air, the canned commercials had rounded up 70 cats in the recruiting offices, all of them babbling bop and eager to slide into those cool blue threads. (Average turnout before the jive-talk campaign: four recruits a week.) In Manhattan. Jazzbo Collins was pleased but unsurprised. "Recruiting spots would lend themselves. 'The Army needs YOU!' just wouldn't go. Whereas if you said, 'Man, dig that crazy uniform. It's a gasser.' Well...
...field of 33 candidates competed for the positions on the new council and one was elected from each House. The turnout is believed to be the largest in recent years...
...Student Council on Grants-in-aid began its interviews yesterday. Only ten men came, but the committee hopes the turnout will be larger in the days to come...
Signifying Apathy. On election day, Candidate Jeger, seeking to take her late husband's seat in Parliament, won for the Socialists-with a gain of 2% over their 1951 majority. The turnout was less than in 1951, and Lord Beaverbrook's Tory Evening Standard claimed that the defeat "signifies only one thing: apathy." But the Socialists had increased their relative strength against the Tories by this same 2% in two other recent by-elections in Lancashire. Recent public-opinion polls also report an average 2% gain in Socialist popularity. In a general election this would be enough...