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...Middle East. Arab air forces were largely decimated during the Six-Day War and are still being rebuilt by Russia with new MIGs and Sukhois. Qualified pilots are more difficult to come by. Egypt has 415 planes, but it has also lost perhaps a quarter of its pilots; the ratio of planes to pilots presently seems to be about 4 to 1. As a result, Egyptian flyers have been offering far fewer challenges since last September, sometimes bailing out after only minor damage to their planes...
...industrial average scraped its late-May low of 631, but Wall Street's brokers were still gloomy about their own private profit squeeze. In the long bear market, the brokerage houses suffered more severely than most of the firms in whose shares they deal. The capital-to-debt ratio of three out of the 25 largest brokerage houses was so low in recent weeks that the New York Stock Exchange has been pressuring them to trim expenses by dropping employees and reducing salaries. Many firms have laid off 10% to 15% of their staffs without announcement, and young...
...year has been forced to pare back from Ill. branch offices to 95; it will now absorb 20 Glore Forgan offices. More important, Du Pont will add some $18 million to its $62.5 million capital-an infusion that it sorely needs. Though Du Font's 13-to-l ratio of capital to liabilities is well within legal limits, it is right at the point where the New York Stock Exchange begins to take an active interest in a firm's problems...
Male-Female Ratio...
...Faculty member after the Spring events, the study also shows that Cliffies participated in the protest on a slightly greater scale than Harvard students. Thirty-two of the 118 (or 27.1 per cent) were in University Hall the night of the police bust. This compares with a 4:1 ratio of men to women undergraduates in the University...