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...pair of Democrats-Connecticut's liberal Abraham Ribicoff and Mississippi's conservative John Stennis-to require nationwide school integration. Ribicoffs amendment to an Administration bill appropriating $1.5 billion to help school districts desegregate would have required all U.S. schools in metropolitan areas to achieve a minimum racial ratio by 1985. This would be done by discarding city and suburban boundaries and requiring each school in the area to have at least half the percentage of black students that the whole region contained...
Surrounded by Choice. Despite the seeming anarchy, Rowell and his staff firmly believe in teaching math, reading and writing. The school has a high ratio of adults (all under 25) to kids, despite salaries of only $100 a month. There are five full-time teachers. In addition, a dozen local artists and professors do volunteer teaching. Older kids teach younger ones. Still, "classes" meet only when children come looking for things "to get into." The school's chief gift is the freedom to be interested-in anything...
...into profitable big-block trading. But the firms normally have to buy these blocks before they can sell them among investors, and this requires considerable capital. In addition, the New York Stock Exchange is planning to tighten its capital requirements; instead of a 20-to-l maximum ratio of liabilities to assets, it will demand...
...firm is expected to make $40 million by offering its shares at $20 to $24. That would amount to a conservative ratio of 15 times or 18 times last year's earnings of $1.35 a share. Nobody would be surprised if the shares jumped to a premium...
...North and South Houses, the female-male ratio will be about 2-1. Currier House, with 234 women and 80 men, will have a 3-1 ratio. "Very few Currier House women decided to move to Harvard and we wanted to save 95 spaces for incoming freshman women." Austin said...