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...increased to a level where they may be able to spring an attack without giving much warning. NATO is poorly prepared for the kind of short, ferocious rocket, tank and artillery blitz that Moscow could launch. Indeed, the Soviets would launch no other kind, for their 75%-to-25% ratio of combat troops to support troops (the U.S. puts 50% in logistics and support) is predicated on a fast-moving front. In a discomfiting break from tradition, Moscow is now training its air force to support advancing ground units. The SU-19 Fencer, recently deployed in East Germany...
...proposals, which the Faculty has not yet considered, would alter the CRR's student-faculty ratio, disallow the introduction of hearsay evidence against students, and revise the committee's charter...
David L. Gorski, chief of the University police this week declined to discuss the difficulties of a 74-to-one ratio, saying, "Problems like that would be perceived more by her than by the organization...
Boston University's police force has one woman on its 24-member force, while MIT's ratio is two women...
Next year's Catalogue of Instruction will list for each course--along with its examination group and whether Friday's class is optional--the anticipated dollar return. On study cards, students will compute their combined price earnings ratio for the term. Excerpts from the revised "prospectus" of courses demonstrate that the faculty knows the value of a buck...