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...efficacy of corporal punishment (during this century at Eton, boys were held by two of their schoolmates over a flogging block to be beaten by teachers). The present Home Secretary, R.A.B. Butler, is on record "in favor of parents using the cane" on their offspring. A recent Gallup poll showed that 70% of British men, and a whopping 76% of British women, urge the flogging of young criminal offenders. Said a dejected British doctor: "Instead of feeling a sense of horror on hearing of some father brutally belting his son, many people instinctively think that the little bastard probably deserved...
Defeat & Frustration. Almost every other index attests to Kennedy's personal popularity. In a recent Gallup poll, 73% said they approved of the way he is handling his job, and only 6% disapproved (the rest had no opinion); at the corresponding point in Dwight Eisenhower's first term, a similar Gallup poll showed 67% approval, 8% disapproval...
...Gallup's newest question was: "Should this money go only to public schools, or should money go to help Catholic and other private schools as well?" Last week's results...
...public has a more tolerant view of federal loans for Catholic school construction, Gallup also reported last week. Results...
...Southerners-76% of them, says Pollster George Gallup-now generally concede that desegregation is inevitable. In 1954 public schools were wholly segregated in 17 states, today in only four. In Tennessee, where the Nashville city council now has both Negro and white members, state legislators last month adjourned for the first time without introducing a segregation bill. In once hotly resisting Virginia, segregation has vanished in many schools, most buses and all public libraries. In the 1961 gubernatorial campaign, how to fight desegregation will probably not even be an issue...