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Realists point out that one reason why Ecuador moved ahead so fast was that it had far to go. Per capita income, though it almost doubled in a decade, is still only $164 a year. Too much business and industry is run as an old family affair, grossly inefficient, protected by high tariffs. Yet Galo and his successors down to Conservative President Ponce Enriquez have brought hope for the future and, above all, freedom. Almost daily one paper or another roasts Ponce for "fraud, deceit and treason." The President ignores them all. "Neither calumny nor insult disturbs me," he says...
...solving the problem would be to divide the appropriation by the number of full-time students enrolled in college, then grant each a "per capita" award. But this suggestion, while seemingly egalitarian, would penalize the so-called "fringe" colleges, while giving too much to well-established institutions...
...Consultant Harry M. Wootten, the man who knows the tobacco industry best. Sales last year, said Wootten, soared about 9% to top $4 billion; profits rose 11% to $220 million. Domestic consumption jumped to an alltime high of 430 billion cigarettes, up 5% for the year. Most important, per capita use broke the old record of 3,509 cigarettes set in 1952, just before the start of the medical reports linking cigarettes with cancer. Last year the average American aged 15 or over smoked 3,575 cigarettes or 179 packs...
Since World War II, 86 U.S. wholly owned plants have sprouted in The Netherlands and 38 in Belgium; U.S. companies have invested more than $250 million, created more than 40,000 new jobs. Per capita U.S. investment in the two countries ranks highest on the Continent...
...worth of books and records offered by the Coop to the House with the highest per capita contribution was won by Kirkland, with an average gift of $3.33 per student. Lowell was a close second with a per capita return...