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...bargain of the war: the cartridges they use cost only 13?. Appropriately enough, they thus call themselves "the 13? killers." In the past eight months, the 90-odd snipers of the 1st Marine Division have recorded over 450 confirmed kills, against four dead of their own-an astonishing kill ratio of better than...
Radcliffe's enrollment will increase just as the enrollment of all other educational institutions is increasing, Mrs. Bunting said. She added that the present Harvard-Radcliffe ratio of four to one could be another reason for change. "I don't think anybody considers it the best ratio," she said...
...four who have overcome the general passion for secrecy. Last year Du Pont's profits climbed 19½% to $4,340,152, while its revenues rose 12% to $70,637,738. That may sound like a bundle, but it actually amounted to a mere 6.1% profit ratio, well below the amount of revenue that most industrial companies keep after taxes. Still, it was a considerably better performance than that of the typical advertising agency, which retains only...
...firmest figure is the number of legal abortions (10,000 a year) performed in hospitals-and they are decreasing. In the early 1940s, one pregnancy in 150 was aborted to save women with such diseases as di abetes, tuberculosis and hypertension. Now medical advances have helped to cut the ratio...
...next step-isolating the ports by blasting roads, marshaling yards and rail sidings around dock areas. > Antiaircraft and SAM-missile fire from the ground has fallen off dramatically in some areas, thanks largely to shortages of shells and missiles. This has been reflected by a decline in the ratio of U.S. planes lost to sorties flown. Further, there has been a drop in the number of bomb loads that had to be jettisoned by U.S. flyers in order to combat pursuing MIGs, now considerably less in evidence. > In the South, Viet Cong strength is dropping. Recruitment, once thought...