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Gill pointed to the general organization of the course and its "erratic" lecture-section ratio as main reasons for its new popularity. He also praised the section men in the course...
...organized themselves into clubs (such as World Tape Pals, with more than 5,000 members and local chapters known as "reels") and correspond with each other by tape. Most of them are strenuous collectors of gadgets-head demagnetizers, bulk erasers, splicers-and tend to value a performance in direct ratio to how rare it is. A currently prized item: Pianist Glenn Gould playing Brahms's D Minor Concerto with the New York Philharmonic this spring-and Conductor Leonard Bernstein's speech disclaiming any responsibility for the performance...
...likely to have (e.g., Sir Reginald Aylmer Ranfurly Plunketty-Earnle-Earle-Drax)." Delving further into the small print of Debrett's Peerage, Hall emerged with another proposition, published last week with a statistical breakdown in Town magazine. Hall's Second Law: "Proneness to divorce increases in direct ratio to position in the social scale...
...conventional auto insurance premiums. He insisted that his agents work only for State Farm, but in return, the company took over all their paperwork and payments collections: the arrangement left the agents free to sell, and has cut State Farm's expenses-to-earned-premiums ratio to 19.1%, second best in the industry after Liberty Mutual...
...highly exclusive school which tries to help its students conquer their identify problems. Dean Grenville Coca Cola boasts of the diversity of his student body: "No two women come from the same city or state." He is also justifiably proud of the 1:4 teacher student ratio at his institution. There are four students...