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...remaining two seats to be taken by selected neutrals. The Russians demand a 3-3-1 representation. Since a two-thirds vote will be necessary on all budgetary matters, the West will have an effectual veto over the systems operations. The Western objection to the 3-3-1 ratio is that it places too much strain on the neutral in cases of disagreement, but gives him too little influence in matters of agreement...
...World War I. Chief lesson: a band of well-trained, well-supplied guerrillas can harass and tie down 10 to 15 times its own number in conventional enemy troops-for example, 300,000 partisans could easily keep 3,000,000 troops entangled. The Army reasoned that the U.S.-Communist ratio might run much higher, since the U.S. has one big advantage over the Communists: the waiting millions of anti-Communists in Communist-conquered countries...
...warmed to the campaign, citing an estimate that "doubly taxed" Catholics, by running parochial schools, now save non-Catholic taxpayers nearly $3 billion a year. Protestants backed the Catholic President. Seventh-day Adventists were well pleased that the Kennedy bill excludes church schools, even though they have the highest ratio of students to church members (one for every seven members v. the Catholics' eight). "Kennedy is keeping his campaign pledge magnificently," said one Adventist official...
...kept the furthest away from any Congressman's sight. In three sub sections there are three notions of a proper unifying concept. Stress is placed successively on language, literature and then composition. There is also a head-in-the-sand-type request for a 1 to 25 student-teacher ratio in teaching composition. After a fine beginning there is this general lack of enthusiasm, focus and the failure to present firm principles and standards...
Very evident to the Swarthmore visitors who come from a college that boasts a to one girl-boy ratio, was the social position of Radcliffe...