HYRC Poll Declares Nixon Leads in N.H.

Vice-President Nixon received 55 per cent of the first place votes in a "Presidential side-walk poll" conducted by students in New Hampshire Saturday.

Because of the avowed importance of the New Hampshire Presidential primary, Christopher T. Bayley '60, president of the Harvard Young Republican Club, and three other members polled approximately 100 persons each in` Keene, Concord, Manchester, and Nashua to determine what effects the recent visits of Nixon and Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller of New York to New Hampshire have had upon its voters.

Among the 173 Republicans, who represented a 43 per cent majority of the votes polled, 79 per cent favored Nixon to 12 per cent for Rockefeller. Of the 29 per cent who classified themselves Democrats, 65 per cent chose Senator John Kennedy, with 20 per cent for Nixon. Nixon also received 47 per cent of the first place choices among the 112 Independents polled.