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With Tom Blodgett's activities limited by a leg injury, the varsity needs a healthy Mark Mullin to stay in the race for first place. If he has recovered from his siege of virus Mullin could repeat his outdoor Heps triumph in the mile, and could be one-fourth of a really not two-mile relay squad...
...education is an enterprise so vast that between students and teachers it occupies more than one-fourth of the population. It costs $27 billion a year. Costs have risen chiefly because of a spectacular 50% rise in school enrollments since World War II. Kennedy proposes to spend $5.6 billion on education over a period of five years...
...Indian agriculture ministry officials privately call cow worship a serious drain on their country's resources, Hindus in millions still say as they have through the ages: "The cow is our mother." India remains the world's great cow country: its 202 million head of cattle (almost one-fourth of the world's cattle population and double that of the U.S.) compete for food with its 400 million human inhabitants...
Last week the U.N. force was subjected to the worst threat yet. The U.A.R., Guinea and Morocco announced that they were withdrawing most of their troops, and Indonesia declared that it was also pulling out its 1,145 men. Overall, this meant a loss of one-fourth of the U.N.'s manpower. The withdrawals would clearly favor the pro-Lumumba rebels already in control of more than 30% of northern and eastern Congo, and anxious to extend their influence once the U.N. roadblocks disappear. In Stanleyville, Antoine Gizenga's pro-Lumumba forces held 300 hostages, prepared to shoot...
Several other gifts of this type came in December. Tax laws favor transactions of this sort being handled at the end of the year. Stock transfers have accounted for about one-fourth of all the funds collected...