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Doermann said, however, that there might still be a sharp drop-off in the acceptance rate before the May 1 deadline. More than 450 of the incoming group are still to be heard from. In any case, the larger percentage of admitted students planning to come to the College will not result in overcrowding until the number of acceptances is 50 more than anticipated...
...Gallup's figures, 69% of the nation's adults thought that religion was increasing its influence; now only 45% think so. During the same period, the proportion of those who believe that church influence is declining has risen from 14% to 31%. Gallup also reports a drop-off in church attendance after 15 years of a steady rise. In 1958 his pollsters found that 49% of U.S. adults attended services on a typical Sunday; last year's figure...
...plant and equipment. In 1960, said the agencies, this spending was cut back only 4%, will run about 10% ahead of 1959. It was the Government's third downward revision-to an annual rate of $35.7 billion-of its original estimate of $37 billion. But the drop-off was so small that it was not a major depressant on the economy. While the report estimated that plant and equipment outlays will slide further to $34.9 billion in the first quarter of 1961, this prospect was not as bad as earlier expectations...
...usual in the wild confusion of Indonesian affairs, the situation was desperate but not serious. Sending police into shops to stop further price boosts, the government blamed the drop-off mainly on Chinese panic buying. Actually, the government has gone on financing the deficit incurred fighting the 1958 rebellion by printing more rupiahs than the exports of Indonesia's rich natural resources (nearly half the world's rubber, a fifth of its tin, a third of its copra) could handily pay for. But 95% of Indonesia's 90 million inhabitants, living in a subsistence rural economy that...
...public image" bears changing, it is certainly true that the role of the prospective science student needs study. Nearly half of recent freshman classes have indicated a desire to concentrate in the sciences, but a considerably smaller percentage actually does. Any number of factors might contribute to the drop-off--a sudden discovery of the liberal arts, a discouraging decline in grades, or possibly the deglamorization of the role of scientist in a freshman's mind (just as a horde of students who list "writer" as an occupational preference end up lawyers and teachers...