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...armed robberies a month last year. During the first four months of 1967, the figure leaped to 290. The police department, starved for funds by a penurious local government, has been of little help. Other cities of 1,000,000 or more have an average police-citizenry ratio of about 1 to 320; Houston's is 1 to 700. And its 1,350 underpaid men must patrol 446 square miles, third largest municipal territory in the country...
...parts of both legs, he had risen through the ranks to a key position in the Social Democratic Party. More to the point, he was regarded as a first-rate doctor who ran a model geriatrics clinic; under him, in 13 years, the clinic's "cured and released" ratio rose from a dismal 3% to 33%. Patients were devoted to the charming German Czech, and so was his staff. Small wonder that there seemed to be nothing between...
Lord & Taylor breathlessly advertised that they at last had their Emilio Pucci bikinis in stock, sold them out in two days. Ohrbach's looked over the situation, decided that on the ratio of bikini to flesh, what they'd better advertise was the tan ("A little green buys a lot of tan at Ohrbach's"). And Arnold Constable ran three lissome lovelies in bikinis with a message guaranteed to send every woman reader back to her diet tables: "A reward for every good girl who gave up malteds last March...
Even though 70% of all Negroes are rejected by the draft because of ghetto-bred ill health or non-education, the proportion of Negro army combat troops in Viet Nam is more than double the ratio of Negroes to whites in the U.S. population at large (23% v. 11%). That, according to the Negro G.I. himself and his officers, is because those who make it into military service are the "cream of the crop"-can-do, must-win competitors who volunteer for dangerous duty both for the premium pay and the extra status it gives them. "I get my jollies...
Though the proportion of Negroes to whites in Viet Nam is higher than the domestic civilian ratio (23% v. 11%), the Pentagon issued no comparative figures on their casualties. Because a great number of Negroes volunteer for the riskier assignments, their losses presumably are relatively higher...