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While Biafra originally encompassed 29,000 square miles, present boundaries now enclose only about one-fourth of that area. This remaining territory is totally landlocked and does not contain the former Biafra's most fertile land. The Mission asserts that somewhere between eight and nine million Biafrans live in this area, although many previous estimates have been as low as four million...
...location and a possible exchange of single rooms for doubles or private baths for shared ones). The percentages in a random sample of 100 Radcliffe and 200 Harvard students were even higher. While not all the students who originally indicated a desire to participate in such an exchange can be expected to do so, it is evident that a sizable number of students would like to participate. Furthermore, if the exchange involves equal numbers of Harvard and Radcliffe students, only one-fourth the percentage of Harvard students as Radcliffe students will be needed...
...beginning to affect consumers as well as businessmen. In California, the giant Bank of America and several savings and loan associations lifted their minimum interest rate on home mortgages from 7¼% to 7½%. At week's end Manhattan's First National City Bank increased by one-fourth of 1% its charges for auto, consumer and home-improvement loans. The true annual interest rates on some personal loans rose to more than...
...campaigns have already brought substantial gains. In Kentucky, for instance, the liberal coalition now controls about one-fourth of the Louisville party organization. The party in Minneapolis and St. Paul was taken over by student activists and suburbanites in the McCarthy drive--they have not let go, despite Hubert Humphrey's recent pledge to oust the "kooks" from the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party...
...maximalism." Theoretically at least, the question of papal prerogative seemed to have been settled by the First Vatican Council of 1870, which declared that the Pope, when he speaks ex cathedra for the church on matters of faith and morals, is infallible. The decree was opposed by more than one-fourth of the assembled bishops-several of them quit the council rather than have to vote on it-but psychologically the decision made a certain amount of sense...