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Glimp also revealed some of the final admissions figures for the Class of '66. The final ratio of public to private school graduates in the freshman class held steady at 56 to 44 per cent for the third straight year. A one per cent increase in the public school representation had been reported previously...
...service, a concept originally executed by, and credited to. the Beverly Hills's Hernando Courtright, who bought the hotel in 1943. Current owner Ben Silberstein, who took over ten years later, has sedulously maintained the tradition. The Beverly Hills has 1½ employees for every guest, the highest ratio of any hotel in the country...
...mercy of the Communists, who demonstrated the fact by throwing a grenade into the independence-day crowds, killing six. But despite serious remaining difficulties, the rural populace is showing greater resistance to enemy guerrillas, who are now losing three weapons for every four they capture; only last year, the ratio was one to two. U.S. advisers are confident that the Viet Cong now have virtually no hope of achieving their goal of setting up a separate, Communist-ruled puppet state in South Viet Nam. After a four-day visit last week, Admiral Harry D. Felt, commander of U.S. Pacific Forces...
Exemplary Education. The lure of all this has brought Andover a seasoned faculty (average age: 46) with only six bachelors as compared with 95 married men, reversing the traditional ratio and filling the campus with children. The teachers are formidable men. A young housemaster may be not only a Ph.D. in classics or physics, but also an ex-paratrooper or Harvard crew captain...
...size of a basketball, is painted in the center. Similarly, four more discs, three orange and one blue, are painted in the four corners. Silver-black oils cover the rest of the surface, stroked on radially with respect to the individual circles, applied to a thickness in direct ratio with its proximity to the circles. The general appearance is, therefore that of five craters of paint. The title, Mr. Rutman explains soberly, came after the work was completed...