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...York Stock Exchange volume in G.M. stock every business day for the whole ten years, and would depress both Du Pont and G.M. stock prices. Alternatively, Du Pont could distribute its G.M. stock to Du Pont stockholders in place of or in addition to regular cash dividends-at a ratio of 1.37 shares of G.M. stock to 1 of Du Pont...
...Move. If he gets the cash, Topping's master plan could revolutionize U.S.C. To improve the already good teacher-student ratio (1 to 11), the faculty will be increased by 50%, and salaries will be raised. Enrollment will rise only 25%, compared with the 100% expected in many schools. To double the number of graduate students, new buildings will go up for everything from international relations to solid-state physics...
...system--teas, special dinners, sherries--is inevitably stilted and artificial. And while the funereal atmosphere of these semi-official gatherings lend itself to mockery, the lack of contact with older minds remains one of the most serious defects in a Radcliffe education. The new Houses are to have a ratio of resident and affiliate associates roughly equivalent to that of the Harvard House...
...crucial question concerning the last suggestion would be the ratio of commuting to residential students. Administration feeling favors a 50-50 ratio, but this would drastically slash the number of commuters from the present 304 to approximately 200. Furthermore, just how such a House would be organized is not at all clear. Regarding the other three proposals, Master Leighton emphasizes that with any further cut in the number of commuters, Dudley would be too small to support its own tutorial program and could not participate in athletic events on an equal basis the the other Houses...
...buyers of new issues seem to worry about such prudent measuring sticks as price-earnings ratios. Control Data, which hit the over-the-counter market at 1 a few years ago, recently hit 133-or 148 times its expected earnings of 90? a share. Some hot-selling companies have never seen anything but red ink. Says one broker: "I can understand a stock selling at 20 times earnings, or 50 or even 100 times earnings-but how do you compute the ratio of a company with no earnings...