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...College operates for the most part within a framework of custom loving conservatism and the graduate school has not yet assumed significant size, "Princeton" the community is alive with intellectual adventure. There the Institute for Advanced Studies conducts its profound theoretical explorations; across town at headquarters of the Gallup Poll experts from the University's Office of Public Opinion Research provide technical assistance in the delicate process of national pulse-taking...
Pollster George Gallup reported last week that only 55% of the U.S. still thinks that development of the atomic bomb was a good idea (down from 69% in September 1945). But a growing majority is for keeping it handy just the same: 70% think the U.S. should continue manufacturing the A-bomb (compared...
Harry Truman, whose Gallup poll rating had dropped from 60% last spring to 54% in July, was up to 55%. His Party was doing even better. If a presidential election were held now, Dr. Gallup's pollsters found, 56% of the voters would pick the Democratic ticket...
...Gallup pollsters reported that if a federal election were held now, the Liberals would get 43% of the popular vote (they got 41% in the 1945 election); Tories 28% (29% in 1945); CCF 16% (15%); other parties...
This time, Mr. Stewart is a sort of Gallup pollster. Pretending to be an insurance man, he descends on an unsuspecting U.S. town and pumps the townspeople dry of their opinions on everything under the sun. As he pumps, he falls in love with the town and some of its inhabitants, notably Jane Wyman. In turn, everyone trusts, likes or loves Jimmy. But much as it goes against his conscience, he must be true...