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...month. But a Bantu widow gets only a lump sum payment, which, if prudently invested, would give a return calculated at $9 a month. At week's end keepers of the fund were trying to decide whether or not to apply a similar ratio...
...intentions.' " Dulles did not attempt to gloss over the possibility that the U.S.S.R. could outnumber the U.S. by 3 to 1 in long-range missiles in 1961-63, even though a few new hard facts of intelligence point toward production plans that would reduce the ratio to 2 to 1. In Washington Democrat Symington snapped: "He completely confirms my position without reservation." Said Democrat Johnson less sharply: "I believe that our officials are patriotic men trying to do the best they know how, but I think we could all sleep in more peace if our country spent more time...
...C.E.D. suggests giving aid to states where personal income falls below a certain national "foundation" (minimum): 80% of a figure arrived at by dividing all U.S. personal income among schoolchildren only ($9,157 in 1957-58). Each state would receive a percentage of its deficit, equivalent to the national ratio of school spending to personal income. Sample: in 1957-58 the ratio was 2.83%, and Mississippi's personal income per pupil was $4,264 less than C.E.D.'s suggested foundation. Thus it would have received $121 per student, or a total of $54 million...
...says, "the FAA inspectors can fly these jets better than the man they're checking out." One out of four pilots, in fact, fails the FAA flight test on commercial jets first time around, and it was because the ratio was higher among pilots 55 and older that Quesada a few weeks ago made 60 the mandatory retirement age-and thus once more incurred the anger of most oldtime airline flyers, who had looked for retirement...
...Stanley C. Allyn, the chairman of National Cash Register Co., whose products start with the grocer's $200 till and top off with a $1,000,000 electronic computer. "Chick" Allyn already counts 40% of his profit from his business abroad, figures to up that ratio to 50% this year. Says he: "We're not going to compete with foreign producers just by yelling for tariffs. It's going to take hard work. If we get fat and lazy, we'll wind up a second-rate nation...