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...article on co-residential living, it was stated that the ratio of men to women in each House ". . . was determined by adding the number of House members willing to move to Radcliffe to one-third of the House's freshman quota for next year and dividing this sum into the total number of spaces available in the House...
These Cliffies will receive a detailed application today listing the nine Harvard Houses and the ratio at which each House can accommodate them. The House ratios were determined by adding the number of House members willing to move to Radcliffe to one-third of the House's freshman quota for next year and dividing this sum into the total number of spaces available in the House...
...Chicago, 39% in Detroit, 40% in Newark and 63% in Washington, D.C. By contrast, the proportion of black policemen in those cities is 10%, 17%, 5%, 10% and 21% respectively. Of the nation's 300.000 lawyers, only 3,000 are black-one of the smallest black ratios of any U.S. profession. Of the Government's 93 U.S. Attorneys, none is black; the most recent (Cecil Poole of San Francisco) has just been replaced by a white. Thurgood Marshall sits on the Supreme Court, but of 459 federal judges, only 22 are black. Among the country...
Nationally, the white suicide rate is 21 times the rate for blacks. But among males in the 20-to-34-year-old bracket, the ratio is almost even; in big-city ghettos, the black male rate may be double the white. Why? White Psychiatrist Herbert Hendin blames "a sense of despair, a feeling that life will never be satisfying...
Courage v. Cunning. Marine casualties in Viet Nam both dead and wounded stand at 97,500 compared with 87,000 in World War II and 28,000 in the Korean War. Because their ratio of combat to support personnel is high, and because they engaged North Vietnamese regulars on the enemy's border, their losses were proportionally higher than those of the Army. Lacking large helicopter forces to carry out the vertical envelopment tactics that they developed in Korea, the Marines often seemed immobile and oldfashioned, as if forced to substitute raw courage and tenacity for flexibility and cunning...