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...church attendance seems to have leveled off, according to a Gallup survey. The high was in 1955, with 49.6 million as the estimated weekly attendance. In 1956 the figure dropped to 47.5 million. The total for 1957: 48.5 million...
...prestige to the outside world; Missouri's Senator Stuart Symington, ready, in Sputnik's day, to cash in on five years of criticizing Republican defense policy; Adlai Stevenson, believed by many to be eager to try against some Republican besides Ike; Estes Kefauver, still, according to the Gallup poll, the peepul's choice (he leads second-place Jack Kennedy by 26% to 19%, but professional Democratic politicians are more unwilling than ever-if possible-to accept him); and Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey, Michigan's Governor "Soapy" Williams, and even Oregon's odd Senator...
Analyzing the week's returns, Republicans were stung not only by cold statistics but by the bitter realization that matters will likely get worse before they get better. Dwight Eisenhower's prestige is at its lowest since 1954. Pollster George Gallup finds the normally Republican Midwest leaning Democratic (54% to 46%) in congressional choices for the first time in eleven years. Breaking a six-year preference, says Gallup, independent voters consider Democrats the prosperity party rather than Republicans (proDemocratic: 30%; pro-Republican: 25%). The G.O.P. also faces a mathematical disadvantage in next year's congressional elections...
Steadily slipping all year, President Eisenhower's popularity rating has hit its lowest since the 1954 congressional elections (see chart). In reply to his standard question ("Do you approve or disapprove of the way Eisenhower is handling his job as President?"), Pollster George Gallup last week reported these answers...
...himself wrote the plays (e.g., in attacking one favorite numerological theory, they show that WM. FRIEDMAN and FRANCIS BACON both equal 100). Through a meticulous study of Elizabethan printing methods, combined with a whole series of highly technical cryptological checks, they also demolish the theories of the late Elizabeth Gallup, who in the '20s and '30s attracted a large following among Baconians. So far as cryptology is concerned, conclude the Friedmans sternly, Shakespeare is still Shakespeare. "We suggest that those who wish to dispute the authorship of his plays should not in future resort to cryptographic evidence, unless...