Word: opinion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unfortunately, this deference to public opinion seems also to be inherent in his own approach towards campaigning. Throughout his stand on such varied issues as exchanges with Russia and resumption of atomic tests runs a more than natural concern with shaping his position to fit public opinion. And behind them all lurks the strong suspicion that if Nixon had not pre-empted the opposite views Rockefeller would have made them...
...approach becomes most distressingly apparent, however, in his attitude towards public opinion polls. His faith in them, going so far as to allow them to determine whether he would make an effort for the nomination, reflects his faith in the techniques of Madison Avenue. These techniques include his fine large staff which creates an aura of organization and efficiency that permeates all his activities. The staff has seldom slipped. One of the times it did was in Providence, where Rockefeller, not knowing what he was talking about, hastily supported the student loyalty affidavit in the NDEA...
Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, Emeritus, still feels, 25 years later, that his effort in 1935 to rescind the Massachusetts Teachers Oath were well worth while. At that time, Mather withtood public opinion and almost defied the President of the University in his outspoken stand against the oath...
Seconding Atkins' opinion that the Scandinavian field must be strengthened, Hatfield noted that another Scandinavian, Gunnar Boklund, will take over instruction of Scandinavian 50 and an upperlevel course in Swedish literature...
Results of a student opinion poll taken last week show that 260 of 422 students polled prefer to have the Field House used as a coffee shop. A stronghold of opposition to the change has been Holmes Hall, located across from the Field House, where students fear the noise such a center would produce...