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...Russia, where Bolshoi stars are accorded the same respect given to cosmonauts, the stigma of sissy still lingers in the U.S. Many dance schools offer free scholarships to any boy who will don tights; others patrol athletic clubs to recruit prospects. But the climate is changing: the ratio of girls to boys taking up dance, once 50 to 1, is now only 15 to 1. Even more important, the percentage of homosexuals is diminishing too. "When I first started," admits Dancer Paul Sutherland, "about 90% of the men were queer; now the ratio is about...
...very different magnitude.) The Cuban campaign began in January, 1961, with an appeal to secondary students to "help in the battle." Thirty-four thousand professional teachers trained and directed the student volunteers. Castro mobilized 268,420 of them for what UNESCO estimated was a fantastic student-teacher ratio of three...
...addition to doctors and nurses, medical care requires all sorts of supporting troops-hospital orderlies, X-ray technicians, physiotherapists. As care grows more complex, the need for such ancillary personnel rises too. Compared with one health assistant per doctor in 1900, the ratio today is 13 to 1, reports the University of Florida's Dr. Darrel J. Mase to the A.M.A.'s Council on Medical Education. By 1975 the needed ratio will probably reach 25 to 1. Health may then employ 6,000,000 people, and constitute the nation's biggest industry...
...known, however, that post-auditing at the Internal Revenue Service brings $10 for every dollar that it costs. The Joint Economic Committee estimates that the ratio would be many times higher in the Defense Department...
Most of the newsmen I talked to just laughed. The body count is given primarliy by the South Vietnamese. If you compare the number of bodies supposedly counted to the number of weapons captured, the ratio was five, six, and even seven to one. The reporters told me to look at that figure because they said weapons are a good indication of how many soldiers you have killed...