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TIME should bone up on its ballistics. The "tiny" .22-cal. one-ounce slug referred to in your story, "New Mafia Killer: A Silenced .22" [April 18], actually weighs in at approximately 40 grains or one-twelfth of an ounce. One-ounce slugs are usually reserved for the largest of African game and are not made for the bore of a .22 caliber...
...white minority. A pleasant climate and prospering economy have combined to make life very comfortable for white Rhodesians; while personal incomes for both blacks and whites have increased since independence, the gap between the two has grown wider. The average black wage earner's pay is less than one-twelfth of the average income of white Rhodesians, and the earnings of 90 per cent of Salisbury's employed blacks are below the $133-per-month poverty level. The remaining mass of unemployed blacks live under even more marginal conditions, populating an arid area euphemistically described as "African Tribal Lands" comprising...
...FDlC's money is provided not by taxpayers but by the insured banks, which pay premiums equal to one-twelfth of 1 % of their deposits; a $3 billion emergency line from the Treasury has never been used. The deposit insurance fund stands at $6 billion. Over the 42 years of its existence, the FDIC has disbursed $1.6 billion to depositors in some 500 failed banks. All but $247 million has been recovered through sale of assets...
...one male-female ratio and its mixture of freshmen and upperclassmen--both options that, because they are out of the Harvard mainstream, the University has a particular obligation to preserve for students who want them. It is especially important that the Quad's one-to-one ratio be maintained until the ratio throughout the College is one-to-one. The Yale plan not only eliminates student choice in Houses, it also severely limits roommate choice and diversity of acquaintances by populating freshman entries with students assigned to the same House. The prospective roomate pool is effectively reduced to one-twelfth...
...article reported correctly that the percentage of black students enrolled in the first-year class had declined from less than 5 per cent in 1970 to less than 2 per cent in 1973. However, the article failed to note that, while one-fifth of all applicants to GSAS were admitted in 1973, only one-twelfth of the black applicants were admitted. The discrepancy in admissions ratios was similar...