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Church authorities estimate that ideally there should be one priest for every 800 Catholics; worldwide, the ratio is now about one for every 1,300 Catholics-and it is getting worse. In 1966, the number of Catholics increased by 11,000,000; but the church gained only 5,000 new priests. Major crisis countries, said the cardinals, include France, Spain, Brazil, Argentina, and the U.S. According to the 1968 Official Catholic Directory, the nation's total of priests last year decreased by 89-the first drop since at least...
...companies enjoy such affluent anonymity. Last year, American Home increased its sales by 8% and edged for the first time into the ranks of $1 billion-annual-sales corporations (with $55 million to spare). More important, earnings jumped by 11% to $104 million, winning American Home a 25½% ratio of profit to invested capital...
...qualified objections ("If birth control is handled properly") and 2 had religious objections. The sample was 38 per cent Catholic, 42 per cent Protestant and 20 per cent other (7 Jewish, 4 unaffiliated, 1 Greek Orthodox and 1 Buddhist). Assuming the ten refusals to be negative, the ratio is still over five to one with no objections...
...falling prices accounted for some of the week's rush. More important, said brokers, mutual funds moved into the market: at the end of February (the latest available official figures) the funds had $3.4 billion in cash, or 8.2% of their assets, as compared with a normal ratio of 5% or 6%. Some analysts believe that March saw a buildup to $10 billion cash...
...than $300 billion since 1961, the net outflow of aid from their governments is just about the same as it was then-$6 billion. U.S. foreign aid accounts for half the total; but the U.S. gives only six-tenths of 1% of its G.N.P. in aid-a much lower ratio than France, Italy, Belgium and The Netherlands, all of which give 1% or more...