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...questions still to be considered, the most important is the proposal to reduce by half the weight given to generals, relative to course grades and the thesis, in determining the degree of honors. The present ratio for generals, grades, and thesis is 4:4:2. Following an HPC suggestion, generals have been shortened from eight to six hours...
...qualified for teaching, and 150,000 take jobs. That is 50,000 more than the net loss from teachers who retire or quit. Since the school population is growing at about 1,000,000 a year, these graduates should provide one new teacher for every 20 children-an admirable ratio. Yet as schools opened this month, the teacher shortage was the worst since World...
...civilian schools do. Today's radio technician, for example, learns to spot a malfunction before he learns Ohm's law. Trainees are also allowed to progress at their own pace, often working alone with programmed textbooks. Where classroom teaching is used, service schools keep the student-teacher ratio low, take full advantage of military discipline and of the sense of immediacy that training for war gives...
...amateurs' payloads are small and the rockets peewee size. But enthusiasm and, among the teenagers, an astonishing ratio of intelligence to years, fires them with an ample lift. Last week at the N.A.R. meet, experts from NASA, the Army and the Air Force were recruited to judge such sophisticated craft as a model Gemini-Titan constructed (in a total of 300 man-hours) on a 1-to-48 scale, complete with a two-man capsule. Sixteen-year-old Albert Kirchner of Bethpage, N.Y., woomphed off a three-stage Little Joe II-Apollo test vehicle that cost him 200 hours...
...investors are therefore nervous -as witness the fact that even the mutual funds were staying relatively clear of Wall Street. According to second-quarter reports, the mutuals have some $2.3 billion waiting to be invested. This represents about 61% of their assets in cash and marketable securities, the highest ratio since...