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...troops were soon besting the Viet Cong in fire fights from Chu Lai to An Khe. The 34,000 marines in Viet Nam boast a 5-1 kill ratio over the enemy, have spread their original beachhead until now they control 400 sq. mi. of territory. When a bad bit of intelligence unloaded the 101st Screaming Eagles from their helicopters right into a battalion of Viet Cong near An Khe, the Eagles fought hand-to-mortar until the field was theirs. Soon the increasing aggressiveness of American ground troops everywhere was adding yet another dimension of fear and uncertainty...
...assaults never materialized-be cause quick-scrambling allied planes all too often flew off through the rainstorms to blast a company apart before it could attack. Whereas in the first flush of their summer successes the Reds could count on an eye for an eye, by August the kill ratio had dropped to 1 to 3 against them-and they are likely to lose 27,000 men in action this year against an estimated 12,000 for the allies (including 1,000 Americans...
...nation still urgently needs more teachers and classrooms, but much has already been done. Teachers' salaries rose 45% from 1950 to 1960, while the average increase for all jobs was 29%; the pupil-teacher ratio declined from 27.7 in 1954 to 25.7 in 1960; the classroom shortage eased even as enrollment rose. As for the dropout problem, only 53% of Americans in the 25-to-29 age bracket had completed high school in 1950; last year the figure...
...over a month, the "kill ratio" of combat dead has been running more than 3 to 1 in favor of the allies, a clear reflection of the fact that it is now the U.S. and Saigon that have the initiative and the guerrillas the defensive. Moreover, the U.S. is constantly adding to its variety of offensive capabilities: fortnight ago, 15 miles south of Qui Nhon, a U.S. Marine raiding force in battalion strength stormed ashore from assault boats of the Seventh Fleet's amphibious task force, swept three coastal areas in Operation Dagger Thrust. Though the marines nabbed...
...Polaroid is selling almost four times as many cameras as last year, cannot keep up with demand. In the past two months Polaroid's stock has shot up from 65 to 85. While the blue chips in the Dow-Jones industrial average are currently priced at a conservative ratio of 18 times per-share earnings, Polaroid is selling...