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...ration of men to women at the Ed School is close to 1:1. "Within the programs, though, percentages vary according to traditional sex roles-women are teachers and men are administrators," charged one woman...
...Edward Ridley Finch Cox. Princeton '68: his mother traces her family line back to one of the drafters of the Decla-ration of Independence; his father a senior partner of the Manhattan law firm of Cox, Treanor, and Shaughnessy. Or Fast Eddie (of. "The Hustler"), a sarcastic nickname given to him by fellow students at the Trinity School, a private New York prep school, because he didn't swing like Paul Newman...
Some students have recently been calling for a closer to equal male-female ration than the present four-to-one. Bunting has seen this demand as secondary and possibly detrimental to the primary goal of merger. The strong Harvard opposition to an equal ratio was one of the major reasons for the not-complete-merger plan just approved: legally, the two institutions are still separate. If ever an equal rights amendment is added to the state or federal constitution, it would not apply to an equal admissions policy because these functions will be kept separate under the new contract...
...effect of this massive effort, by the U.S. military's own estimate, is to keep about half of the Communists' supplies ' from reaching the South. As a result of the air campaign, U.S. commanders believe, the Communists must tightly ration their ammunition, which helps keep the level of fighting down. Of course, the Communists have the advantage most of the time of being free to set their own schedule for attack. "We make him pay a price for every ton," says an Air Force spokesman about the enemy. "But he never runs out of roads. It just...
From an army of papa-san forgers, the AWOL gets his phony ID and ration cards. He goes to the PX, buys an expensive item, such as a refrigerator, for as little as $71.50 in military payment certificates (MFCS). On the open market, he can sell it for $500 in MFCS. Markups on TV sets and stereo sets are almost as high...