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Though the ratio of Viet Cong killed to American casualties (2.5 to 1) was not so high as in the past, the number and severity of engagements was markedly increased. To meet the growing demands of battle, the 160,000 U.S. troops now in Viet Nam will reach 200,000 by year's end, and by early spring will probably number at least...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War: Deeper & Wider | 11/19/1965 | See Source »

...four Negroes were arrested for trespassing. Running as an independent, Stokes came within a whisker (2,458 out of a total 236,977 votes cast) of beating Locher.* As it turned out, he polled 36% of the vote, which is almost exactly Cleveland's Negro-to-white voter ratio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cities: The Negro's New Force | 11/12/1965 | See Source »

...decision upholds Dietz's claim that the annex, us planned, would violate the Cambridge Zoning Ordinance. At the hearing last June, Dietz argued that the Coop's building permit was invalid because the ratio of the annex's floor area to its lot size would exceed the maximum which the ordinance allows...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dietz Wins Partial Victory In Court Battle With Coop | 11/3/1965 | See Source »

...series of basic grants to college libraries, plus supplemental grants made on the basis of library needs, and the ratio of students to library resources...

Author: By John D. Gerhart and Mary L. Wissler, S | Title: The Higher Education Act: New Step in Federal Aid | 11/2/1965 | See Source »

...until Leftwich came along. By quiet persuasion, Leftwich got Yen to add an engineering platoon, a 75-mm. howitzer platoon, a support and a signal detachment to what had been a medieval band. Since then, Colonel Yen and his men have been killing V.C. at a 9-to-1 ratio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: A New Kind of War | 10/22/1965 | See Source »

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