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...Central moved to its present ratio of 90% Negro, tension lessened. "You have most of the problem when you have no definite majority," says able Principal James Boyd, who took over in 1959. "When you have a definite majority, it reduces friction." But that only half explains the story. Even in the majority, Central's Negro students were often dispirited youngsters with little academic ambition. Central had to make them want to learn...
...bickering began when word got around that Bobby Kennedy might be planning a 5-1 ratio, with 58 of the new posts going to Democrats and 15 to Republicans. That was not at all what a lot of Democrats had in mind, and Michigan's Senator Pat McNamara voiced his feelings in no uncertain terms: "I will oppose any Republican from Michigan regardless of who he is. That's final...
...committeeman, although the G.O.P. in prewar Arizona seemed to have little future. Largely because early settlers came from Democratic Texas and the Deep South, Arizona grew up as a one-party state; after 1945, new emigrants from the Republican Midwest cut the Democratic lead from the traditional 12-1 ratio to about 4-1. But Goldwater had no settled political plans for himself when he ran for Phoenix's city council in 1949 on a nonpartisan reform ticket. Goldwater led his slate into office, helped clean up a deficit, and set up a businesslike city-manager system. Next year...
...dollars-and-cents argument. In the U.S., he says, 85% of the psychiatrists, concentrating on lengthy analytic methods, can treat only 15% of mental patients, leaving only 15% to treat the 85% of patients who are in hospitals. Day, night and weekend hospitals, intensively using group psychotherapy, make the ratio nearer even and incidentally enable psychiatrists, handling many more patients, to make more money. Potential savings in unlocking hospitals: $1 billion a year...
...Graders in courses money, however. Graders in courses without sections must be encouraged to conceive of their role in more generous terms than they have in the past. They must do more than record paper and exam grades; in short, must be willing to talk to students. Given a ratio of about one grader for every 25 or so students, more papers could as assigned. Before writing each paper, students would be urged to visit a grader to discuss their proposed topics...