Word: alma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Little Kelly Jean McCormick, the adopted daughter of Tacoma (Wash.) Psychologists Archie and Alma McCormick, was only 3½ when she came sobbing to her mother with an unusual complaint. Her closest friends, all aged five to seven, were learning to read and write, and bright (IQ 147) Kelly Jean wanted to go to school. "I'm so ignorant," cried she. "I can't stand it." The McCormicks decided that they would indeed send Kelly Jean to school-but not to any ordinary one. Their adopted son Jimmy, who also had an IQ of 147, had been...
Last May the McCormicks invited 20 parents of precocious children to a meeting, suggested that they band together to start a school of their own for pupils with IQs of 135 or over. They picked the name Adastra, which Alma McCormick loosely translates as "the sky's the limit." They leased a two-story house on Division Street, persuaded fathers to donate equipment and mothers to help with the secretarial work, finally opened last fall with 13 children aged 3½ to nine. By last week the McCormicks had enough children on their waiting list to assure them...
...future was not in pro football, and I wanted very much to stay in the coaching profession. Playing for the Eagles would have kept me away from some of my team's games, so I decided to stop playing." A few years later he returned to Gettysburg, his alma mater, as an assistant coach of football...
...part, we have always looked forward to the Yale game. It is refreshing to meet our clean-living Rivals Through The Centuries, and see how wonderfully they have progressed since we founded their alma matter a few centuries ago. They dress so nicely, and are so delightfully clean-shaven, and one always knows that they will be such wonderful financial successes in life. We like Yale--it's much milder...
Such weapons might not be far to seek. Early harvests in the newly opened wheat fields of Kazakhstan were so poor that they threatened to make a fiasco of the "virgin lands" program that Khrushchev had rammed through almost singlehanded. From the far-off industrial zones around Irkutsk and Alma-Ata came reports that Khrushchev's decentralization of industry (TIME, April 15) had created such confusion that some factories had shut down completely for want of supplies. Stalin had committed far worse blunders and survived. But Khrushchev, as yet, was no Stalin. Where Stalin, because of his absolute command...