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...University of California. Women continue to constitute "the largest unused supply of superior intelligence in the United States." With each step up the academic ladder, their participation decreases. Women are 50.4% of high school graduates, 43% of college graduates, but only 13% of those receiving doctorates. Less than one-fourth of all college-level faculty members are women, only 8.6% full professors. The gap between the sexes in faculty salaries for comparable positions averages $1,500 to $2,000 a year...
...American Movement collected signatures from roughly one-fourth of all Harvard and Radcliffe indergraduates in the first two days of its petition campaign in support of a student referendum on ROTC...
...plagued by grain surpluses, obligingly held the export price of wheat at $1.63 per bu. by subsidizing farmers and grain dealers to the tune of nearly $300 million. It even provided the U.S.S.R. with $750 million in credit to make the deal possible. Thus the Soviets made off with one-fourth of the total U.S. wheat crop for a cool $ 1 billion-causing shortages and price rises that are still unchecked. Asked last week about reports that a loaf of bread from American wheat costs less in Moscow than in Washington, D.C., Treasury Secretary George P. Shultz admitted that...
OBVIOUSLY, more capable science students and those students with stronger science backgrounds elect the more difficult science courses (i.e., Chem 6). Thus, it is not surprising that those students who have taken Nat Sci 3 do less well in Chem 20 than others. While one-fourth of those lacking the stated prerequisite for Chem 20 do lower than C-work in the course, it would be helpful to know first how that compares with other students enrolled in the course, and second, how well the other three-fourths of students without the prerequisites do. It would be especially interesting...
...surgeons who pioneered its development, the operation should be performed far more often than it is. Each year close to 700,000 Americans die of heart attacks or other effects of coronary arteriosclerosis -hardening of the arteries that power the heart's main pumping chamber. Approximately one-fourth of these deaths occur before age 65 and are thus considered premature. Most of these younger victims, as well as a portion of those who are over 65, could have useful, satisfying years added to their lives if their hearts were repaired. Otherwise, even if they survive, they are likely...