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...decision to institute a policy of equal access followed approval last year of the report of the Strauch Committee, which recommended a reduction of the 2.3-to-1 male-female ratio through the recruitment of an enlarged female applicant pool...
...never been appointed to the Supreme Court"), more than 55% of the Italian vote went to Ford. In the 24th Ward of St. Louis, a predominantly Italian, blue-collar area where 7,000 of the 9,000 voters are Catholic, Carter won by a less than 2-to-l ratio; Lyndon Johnson and Hubert Humphrey each took the ward by nearly 3 to 1. Said St. Louis Democratic Chairman Paul Berra: "Carter's firm stand on the Democratic abortion plank clearly cost him votes...
This afternoon Peabody will practice officially for the last time. Although the number of his practice hours divided by his number of game hours forms a ratio equivalent to the odds of the New York Giants winning a game this season, he's still going to miss...
Antinuclear forces-aided by $75,000 in contributions from Folk Singer John Denver-have waged effective campaigns that may carry the antiplant proposals in Oregon and Colorado. But they have been more heavily outs pent -by a ratio of 7 to 1 in Washington, for example-by utilities and other pro-plant forces, which fear that passage of the proposals will effectively halt any future construction of nuclear power facilities...
...source at around $50,000, that for Extension students is around $10,000, and one-quarter of the Extension students have family incomes of $5000 or less. Extension students come from throughout Boston's metropolitan area, and nearly all either work or hold down family responsibilities full-time. The ratio of women to men in the school is about two-to-one, and about three-quarters fall between the ages of 17 and 36. The school's oldest student was born in 1894, its youngest...