Word: percents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Soviet nation has been waging its campaign, Bergson said, while still maintaining the large degree of the economic independence nurtured by Stalin. The entire Soviet bloc, including Communist China, carries on only three percent of the world's trade outside the Soviet orbit...
...House, of the two hundred Districts now represented by Republicans, thirty-nine were "marginal" in 1956--that is, were won by under fifty-five percent of the two-party vote. In the gubernatorial races, the Democrats are not quite so fortunate as they are in the Senate; of the thirty-three contests, twenty will be in states now governed by Democrats. At present, there are twenty-nine Democratic and nineteen Republican governors...
...results of all this is that ninety percent of all Exeter students get into the college of their first choice, a fact which gives the Exeter pattern particular significance today. As college admission becomes more competitive, colleges will be able to demand better preparation of freshmen, and already Dean Bundy has suggested that Harvard do so. This emphasis on preparation will inevitably force other schools to put, in the continental tradition, more and more emphasis on competitive academic achievement...
...worth nothing that education is not Exeter's only product. There are few statistics, but they are revealing. Exeter graduates leave Harvard in larger numbers than any other group. They see psychiatrists in unusual numbers. Despite their preparation, they do worse than the average freshmen, placing only thirty percent of their group on the Dean's List, compared to a class average of forty percent...
Tuesday's election, with the muchdebated question of the School Committee appointments at issue, was marked by a very heavy turnout. Seventy percent of Cambridge's 50,700 registered voters came to the polls. Ballots for the School Committee will not be counted until the winners of the City Council election are announced. It will be at least a week before the final results are determined...