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...American males is 2½ times that of females; according to the FBI, the number of males arrested for homicide is over five times the number of females; and according to the National Institute of Mental Health, males outstrip females in first admissions to state mental hospitals by a ratio of 3 to 2. Do you think an imperfect male biology is at work 365 days of the year...
...soldiers according to careful tape measurement. The result of artillery fire is determined by tables compiled from actual battle experience, and by the toss of dice, to add the element of unpredictability. When plastic soldiers clash hand to hand, another set of rules-plus the dice-decides the kill ratio. Even morale is cranked into the battle equation: special tables compute expectable reaction to adverse conditions...
Blacklist. By no means a madhouse on a haunted hill, the hospital is run conscientiously by Dr. Duane Sommerness, who since becoming medical superintendent of the institution in 1956, has made notable improvements. When he took over, there were seven doctors for 3,000 patients; now the ratio is 30 to 1,688, with 1,070 other employees, a ratio recommended by the American Psychiatric Association. Today, 54% of the patients come of their own accord; 15 years ago, only 10% did so, and the average stay has been reduced from three years to less than twelve months...
...highest in seven years, and 4,600,000 people were out of work. Surprisingly, job lessness among blacks increased at a rate well below its historic pattern in business slumps. For many years, the black unemployment rate has been twice or more the white rate; this year the ratio shrank to 1.73 to 1. Reasons: there has been some decline in discrimination, blacks have built up seniority by now, and they have many jobs in service trades, in which layoffs have not been as severe. Joblessness among professional and technical workers doubled, as did the number of persons unemployed...
Genevieve Austin, dean of Residence at Radcliffe, stressed the importance of keeping the present male-female ratio at Radcliffe as well as at Harvard. She said, "As far as men and women are concerned, it has to be a man for a man and a girl for a girl...