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...risen from about 52% to 80%. During 1965, the Republic of Viet Nam armed forces and its allies killed 36,000 of the enemy at a cost of approximately 12,000 friendly killed-and 90% of these were Vietnamese. During recent months, this 3-to-1 ratio in favor of the allies has risen significantly, and in some weeks has been as high...
...dealing with youth crime, the Chicago Police Department's official policy reflects a sociologically enlightened position acceptable to most critics. The foreword to the Youth Division Manual states, for example, that "Youth crime is increasing steadily in consequence of the expanding youth ratio of our population . . . Positive police action is necessary . . . Of great importance in this effort is the need for the police and particularly the Youth Division officer, to understand the social, cultural, and economic forces underlying the disposition to crime and to use this knowledge for its prevention...
Seventy per cent of the new freshman class attends public school, and 30 per cent private. Last year the ratio was closer to 65-35, and Dean Stimpson expects that same proportion to develop again as final acceptances come...
...Parsons' primary goal. A surprising proportion of its students are either transfers or dropouts from other schools, and the colloquial campus name for Parsons is "Dropout U." Although well-paid, many Parsons professors must handle up to 20 class hours a week, and the teacher-student ratio is 1 to 20, compared with 1 to 6 at Harvard, 1 to 9 at Iowa. The association considers the minimum standard for a college library to be 255,000 volumes. Parsons' library...
...plan would allow cities which have inadequate funds to share costs with the federal government on a one third to two thirds ratio. This would leave room for local initiative and private enterprise...