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...Cambridge, and had made the University merely a meeting ground for the fleeting hours of morning classes. The Houses, it believed, were ideally suited to make Harvard an intellectual community based upon social as well as academic contact. Implementing this thinking, it arranged to install graduate students, at a ratio of about one to every ten undergraduates, in the Houses...
...those whose illnesses are severe enough to need hospitalization, reported the association's medical consultant, Manhattan's Dr. George S. Stevenson, women outnumber men at all ages-far more than the million-odd majority of women in the U.S. population can explain. In schizophrenia, the female-male ratio is 3 to 2; in senile psychosis and cerebral arteriosclerosis, 6 to 5; involutional psychosis, 5 to 2; and manic-depressive psychosis, about...
...business leaders, led by Vittorio Valletta, president of the big Fiat auto works, began to speak out plainly against Communist labor domination. Result: the Communists were ousted from dominance in Fiat's big Turin plant and scores of other factories; in the last two years the Italy-wide ratio of Communist to non-Communist union membership has decreased from 65%-35% to 50%-50%, with a 3-to-2 anti-Communist majority in plants where the U.S. is spending most of its money...
...every 100 women. Last week the bureau, closing its books on its July 1, 1956 re-estimate of the population, proved that women's ascendancy was no idle boost. The new findings: for every 100 females there are 98.4 men, a further drop in the ratio, caused partly by the continuing trend of female longevity, partly by a heavy reduction in male immigration to the U.S. after the great wave of arrivals at the turn of the century...
...Easterners to believe, Giant's rendition is not entirely unjustified. Similarly its typical characters run according to the authentic mold--Texan males are much like Bick Benedict (Rock Hudson, strong and strongly ruled by Hoyle; their women, as in the movie, are in at least a 5-1 ratio of the vacant-minded to the thinking. The people do herd and smile and "honey-chile," even though not as obviously as in Giant. But after all, these characteristics can be found elsewhere in America. If the scenery is less barren in Ohio, the people are essentially the same...