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...competition with Harvard is directed more at maintaining freedom than at doing exactly what Harvard does just a little better. The famous four to one ratio combines with the natural patterns of relations between the sexes to submerge Radcliffe's individuality; a separate program must have considerable vitality if it is to survive...
...shrewd economy, Avco's pretax profit margin has more than doubled since 1957. from 3.4% to 7.6%. "But you can trim costs just so far," admits Wilson. For the future, Avco intends to boost earnings by swinging into more profitable civilian goods, altering its defense-to-civilian sales ratio from the present 60-40 to 50-50. To help achieve this target, it is banking on a rise in industrial use of such products as its turbine engines and heat-shielding devices. "In our forecasts for coming years," says Wilson, "profit increases are dependent upon increased sales...
...edifice that looks like a big beehive. Willis can now train at home nearly half the 1,500 new teachers he needs every year. Because of Willis, teachers can look forward to a maximum salary of $10,000 as against $5,700 when he arrived. The student-teacher ratio has dropped from 39 to 33. Almost everything that U.S. educators hail as new and different is quietly under way in Chicago. Long before Sputnik, Willis began beefing up his curriculum, launched programs for gifted students. He got $500,000 from the Ford Foundation to start junior college TV courses, another...
Thirty years ago, U.S. doctors saw four out of ten patients in the patients' houses; last year the ratio was one out of ten. The doctor himself has welcomed the passing of the house-call,* but many a citizen counts this skid as just one more sign that doctors are cold, uncaring fellows, heartlessly indifferent to the fact that little Priscilla's forehead feels hot or Grandma's arthritis is acting up. In Medical Economics, a Westwood. N.J.. pediatrician named Phoebe Hudson scoffs at this complaint. House calls, she says, "are just a bad habit...
...market value: $40 million). Equally important, Williams began linking fields to enrich teaching. Among the blends: art-and-literature, art-and-religion. U.S. history-and-literature. Baxter also sharply built up Williams' backward science departments. Even so, the college now has a slightly lower (1:10) teacher-student ratio than when he took over...